HAYATI FAITH
“Every morning, as soon as it was
time to pray fajr, my six-monthold baby kicked and punched”
with my husband present. We were
moved to tears to see a beating heart
and a tiny little nose. All fetuses
(scientific term for unborn ‘babies’)
look the same in the beginning
stages. But to us, this was a magical
moment and this was our baby! I
felt this enormous spiritual warmth
enwrap my body like a blanket
of
protection,
Alhumdulillah.
This is education in the womb.
After three months of pregnancy,
when I told people that I was
educating my child within the
womb, some of them laughed at
me. I do not blame them as it is a
difficult things to grasp. I read the
Quran out loud, I whispered (softly
spoke) to my baby while rubbing my
tummy and I put Quran recitation
And when I saw my daughter’s on iQuran, the application on my
heart beating, I had not yet realized mobile or cell phone and kept it
how closely connected we would close to my tummy (not directly on
become. In fact, at or after 18 the tummy because then, it would
weeks, she was able to hear my own actually be too loud for the baby).
heartbeat and my own voice. In fact,
she also heard the voices of those Every morning, as soon as it was
surrounding me especially that of time to pray fajr, my six-month-old
her father’s. It is at this instant that baby kicked and punched. She woke
we should realize how important me up to pray fajr or so I liked to
listening from within the womb is think. The iQuran application and
for the child and how listening is my recitation at least once a day,
also a form of education reception. permitted me to share the beauty of
the Quranic verses with my daughter.
At just five months of pregnancy, That morning, the iQuran functioned
I performed Hajj. Alhumdulilah, as a lullaby to my daughter. Her
other than the minor colds and kicking and punching relaxed to
coughs, Allah had made it easy for what I imagined was slumber.
me. In fact, I had never walked so
much before in my life! Miles and Remember the importance of
miles of walking during Hajj had educating your child within the
moulded my body into the perfect womb. He or she is already getting
shape to give an easygoing birth. to know you and those closest to you
Not to mention, my daughter was through listening! Alhumdulillah,
inside of me at the time and every such is the miracle of Allah’s
time the Quran was being recited creation and the magical moments
at Makkah and Madinah and every we share with our child or children,
time, the adhaan rang out among all beginning within the womb.
the cities, my daughter was listening.
HAYATI 57