Friday afternoon

Since i've already started the Friday evening series I'll add a Friday afternoon series.
When I am having a perfect friday I'll go first to Juma'ah prayer in one mosque and then in the evening to a lecture in a other mosque.. so thats actually why it makes sense to post two Friday things.
So this friday afternoon the speech was about the following:

How can we manage our task in this life? And maybe more important, what is this task?
Well, our task is it to create, educate and guide the following generation, our children.
We have to lead and to guide them the right way in order to create a righteous and believing Ummah (community) in the future.
The first and most important thing on the way to sucessfully deal with that challenge is to choose the right life partner and therefor the right family and environment in which our children will grow up.
This step is often neglected in todays islamic society since many people think that they just have to get married in order to stay away from the harmful and that anyways they will get to know their partner during the years of marriage so they dont see the importance of getting to know the future husband/wife thoroughly enough.
Many people think that when they marry they fullfill half of their faith so the importance is on getting married, but that is not the solution!
I know many people that marry very quickly in order to dont be tempted to commit any sins but forget that the choice they make is a choice for life. And it is not just a choice for our life, it is also a choice for the lives of our children!
By choosing our partner we choose the nest in which we will embed our children, the environment in which they will grow up and the ideals and values which they will learn and later apply to their lives and pass on to their children, our grandchildren!
Our children are the carrier of Allahs holy message and we are the ones who will have to teach them about it and whoes responsibility it is to make sure that they will carry and pass it on.
It is our responsibility in life, our challenge to bring up believing and righteous children and by chosing our partner we will choose the man/woman who will help us with that, who will share our responsibility. And so we really have to make sure that this partner is as aware of his task as we are because otherwise we manot be able to fulfill our task sufficiently simply because our partner doesn't support us the way he should!

So choosing the right partner, a partner who is religious, rightous and who understand his responsibility and challenge in this world is essential.
And we also have to be aware aand never forget that when we choose a partner, we will also choose his whole family as a background for our children!!!
And the children have to be nourished with Halal (lawful), because no good can come from bad.
Once the Prophet Mohammad, peace be upon Him, told the story of "a man who was on a very long journey, his hair was messed up and he was covered in dust and sand. He raised his hands and called "Oh Lord! Oh Lord!" while his food was haram, what he drank was haram, is clothes were haram and he was nourished with haram. So how could his prayer be answered then?" (Tafsir Al-Qur'an Al-Karim, Islamische Biblipthek, page 110)

Every single child has the right to proper attention and education and it is the parents responsibility to give the child these rights. So if a women gives birth every year, how can she than fulfill her task of giving individual attention and education?
Therefor Islam advises parents to waite till the breast-feeding phase of two years is over after trying to have another child to make sure that every single child gets his right and also to enable the parents to fulfill their task to Allahs pleasure.