Mukhlis

بسم الله الرحمان الرحيم

Alhamdulillah tsumma Alhamdulillah..

Seven days ago, an amazing blessing entered the lives of my wife and I in the form of a healthy, beautiful, baby boy - our first-born child :’D

وَإِنَّ لَكُمۡ فِي ٱلۡأَنۡعَٰمِ لَعِبۡرَةٗۖ نُّسۡقِيكُم مِّمَّا فِي بُطُونِهِۦ مِنۢ بَيۡنِ فَرۡثٖ وَدَمٖ لَّبَنًا خَالِصٗا سَآئِغٗا لِّلشَّٰرِبِينَ

“And indeed, for you in grazing livestock is a lesson. We give you drink from what is in their bellies -  between excretion and blood -  pure milk, palatable to drinkers.” [An-Nahl, 16:66]

Our child, you entered into this world as pure and sweet as fresh milk.

From your first seconds of life, your face shone with the glow of innocence. How do we put into words how much peace it gives us just gazing at you..?

Thus even in these first days of your life, your Creator has given us an ibrah (lesson) to contemplate: that there is peace to be found even in chaos, hope even in despair, love even in animosity.

What a precious lesson to take in this world you’ve been born into - one seemingly filled with corruption, foulness and hate.

Our child, let your name then be an illustration of that first beautiful lesson:

Mukhlis

- a word composed of the root letters “ل”،”خ” and “ص”; from which the words ikhlas (sincerity) and khalis (to be pure) are also derived.

Mummy and papa pray that you will grow up to be salih wa musleh - that you are in yourself good, and helps others to be good;

that you continue being a vessel through whom Allah continues giving us beautiful lessons and reminders;

that you will help us ourselves become more sincere and more pure;

that you will be a Mukhlis - one who is sincere, devoted and pure-hearted. 

Ameen..