I'M A DADDY!!!!!!:-) :-) :-)

Sajid Iqbal โ€”

salaam

Allah (swt) has blessed me with a baby boy on Sunday 26th November 2006!!!!

Its the greatest feeling in the world to be a dad!

Alhamdulillah, the baby is healthy and cute, like his dad of course:-)
My wife is also in good health and very happy and proud like me.

Make duaa that my son remains healthy and grows up to be a good person and make duaa that me and my wife are able to bring up our boy to the best of our ability.

The last few days have been crazy, hectic, stressful, exciting, scary, wonderful, nervy and unbelievable....

After witnessing what my wife had to go through during labour...you can only admire and respect women even more...and anyone says they're the weaker sex.... i dont know many guys who could tolerate the pregnancy and labour....:-) ๐Ÿ™‚

i read the azaan and iqamaah very shortly after my son was born... again a unique special feeling.

Next , its choosing the name... which me and my wife cant decide....
then its cutting his hair, the chop:-), haqeeqah....etc....

Some advice and tips from parents would be great.....and pls share your own experiences.

i think i have to now grow up:-) and probably have less time for revival...

but remember my little lad in your duaas pls.

wasalaam

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*Sponi* โ€” Wed, 29 Nov 2006 - 19:12

[b][color=violet]congrartssssss

InshAllah you baby will have a long and healthy lifeeee...

and you want some advice weelll one thing i have learnt from by brotherrr well is that after the baby has had some milk about one ounce make them do a burpppp..lol you probz already know that but heyyy...[/color][/b]

Omrow โ€” Wed, 29 Nov 2006 - 19:29

Salam

He was born on Sunday and you bother to tell us today !!

What have you been doing for 3 days.

Whats the kids name?

May God give him a happy and prosperous life.

Omrow

*Sponi* โ€” Wed, 29 Nov 2006 - 19:31

[quote="Omrow"]

He was born on Sunday and you bother to tell us today !!

Omrow[/quote]
[b][color=violet]
omrow if you had a kid i dont think you would come on the revivalll i gueess he was busy with the childd! you cantt just dump all the work to the wife now can you the wifee got to look after herself aswell 2 pairs of hands is better than 1[/color][/b]

Amal โ€” Wed, 29 Nov 2006 - 19:41

Assalamu 'alaykum,

MashaAllah and congrats :--)

May you both cherish all the happiness your son brings you, and may Allah keep him faithful, strong, and Allah-devoted. Ameen.

As a proud aunty of 2! ๐Ÿ˜ƒ (mashAllah), the little words i could suggest is you stock up on the essentials - milk, nappies, etc Also, dont buy all 93849644 0-3 month clothes, because babies GROW FAST! :shock: ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

Beast โ€” Wed, 29 Nov 2006 - 20:01

[quote="TheRevivalEditor"]
Next , its choosing the name... which me and my wife cant decide....
[/quote]

Does this mean we get to choose for you?

I recommend Zaki or Mohammed Ali.

Angel โ€” Wed, 29 Nov 2006 - 20:38

[quote="Angel"]Congrats to Ed and his wife. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

May Allah (swt) bless your little boy with the true understanding of deen and may he blessed with great health.

So what did you name him?[/quote]

We all congratulated you on no topic thread coz Seraph told us. You lucky person, bet he's gona be the next Ed and maybe even more passionate than you ๐Ÿ˜‰

Congrats again!

MyEye โ€” Wed, 29 Nov 2006 - 21:00

salaam

Mubarak on the baby.

We had a baby too, we had the babys head shaved, but do not know the fiqhi rulings what to do with the hair and how much charity to pay. Can somebody help us out here.

Bliss โ€” Wed, 29 Nov 2006 - 21:08

congradulations on ur baby boy May Allah swt blessed him throughout!

my advice to u Ed would be again to simply enjoy every second you have with ur son it's precious time don't let it slip"! ( i am sure u won't anyway ๐Ÿ˜ƒ )

as for names Isa, Dawood, Yusuf , Musa catch my eyes amogst many other beautiful names.

You โ€” Wed, 29 Nov 2006 - 21:23

So this mean I am in total charge with no pretenders around?

'tis a good day.

A day to be merry.

I call it "Admin day".

You โ€” Wed, 29 Nov 2006 - 21:44

[quote="**Nisha**"][color=brown]that would be funny if it was an alien ha ha ha [/color][/quote]

Looked like ET to me...

You โ€” Wed, 29 Nov 2006 - 21:45

[quote="yashmaki"]:roll:[/quote]

๐Ÿ˜›

I am a power hungry maniac!

The power and the money. The money and the power. Hour after hour.

peacegirl โ€” Wed, 29 Nov 2006 - 22:38

yes WE (women) are stronger than the men!! men could never go through labour. Even a straight forward one!! ๐Ÿ˜‚ and then all them sleepless nights!!

So happy for you ed!! pass on my regard to your wife! And call the baby rehan!!

mmm โ€” Thu, 30 Nov 2006 - 11:15

Salaam,

Congratulations. This is truly a gift from Allah. May he serve Allah well and make you happier as each day goes by. May he not grow up and be like his uncle mmm. MashaAllah he is in good health and may he stay like that.

If your still having trouble naming him i'll help.

mmm

You โ€” Thu, 30 Nov 2006 - 12:06

Go on, stick some names in here.

I will suggest the truly awful ones to him.

He almost got angry when I made my first suggestion. :twisted:

Snoopz โ€” Thu, 30 Nov 2006 - 12:17

[quote="Beast"][quote="TheRevivalEditor"]
Next , its choosing the name... which me and my wife cant decide....
[/quote]

Does this mean we get to choose for you?

I recommend Zaki or Mohammed Ali.[/quote]

wat does Zaki mean?

MuslimSister โ€” Thu, 30 Nov 2006 - 12:26

I still find it difficult to get my head round the thought of Saj being a daddy ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

He'll be on a level, thats for sure.

My fav boys names..

Ahmad
Adam
Ali
Sulman
Dawud
Daniel
Raiyaan (sp?)
Yusuf

Zaki is nice too...

Seraphim โ€” Thu, 30 Nov 2006 - 14:06

Congrats again bro (for all those who missed it i did tell you all on the no topic thread... but didnt want to start a new thread as i thought that honour shud lie with the Ed himself).
Saj i've been meaning to pop round but been busy bro... maybe sometime over the weekend.

My advice is burp the kid after every feeding or he'll get fussy. Learn how to hold him (you'd be surprised the number of people who dont know how to hold a baby) and rock him to sleep... maybe hum a lullaby... lol. Make sure he gets to take regular naps after feeding and dont keep him up after 8.

Possible names: Aman, Sajid Junr, Sajid 2.0, Salahdin (Sal for short), Rehan, Aryan, Zeeshan, Zain-Bin-Abadeen.

MyEye โ€” Thu, 30 Nov 2006 - 14:14

One cant help but wonder at the Admins statements, kind of confusing, but unspoken heard. ๐Ÿ˜‚

Any wayzzzzz Allaaah has blessed you with a Baby, may you find a beautiful name for the baby, may suggestions be benificial and Islamic. Watch out for unislamic suggestions and believe me it happens, especially within subcontinent comminities.

my penny for the day wasalams

By the way i speak in binary code 010010010100010001001001010010100101001010100101010010
thats my suggestion!

mmm โ€” Thu, 30 Nov 2006 - 14:20

[quote="MyEye"]One cant help but wonder at the Admins statements, kind of confusing, but unspoken heard. ๐Ÿ˜‚

Any wayzzzzz Allaaah has blessed you with a Baby, may you find a beautiful name for the baby, may suggestions be benificial and Islamic. Watch out for unislamic suggestions and believe me it happens, especially within subcontinent comminities.

my penny for the day wasalams

By the way i speak in binary code 010010010100010001001001010010100101001010100101010010
thats my suggestion![/quote]

You want to call the child 259A4925211521, because thats what the code translates to. :roll:

ermm... maybe I shudn't post this. You will prbably start calling me a 'nerd' or even worse 'geek'

Sajid Iqbal โ€” Thu, 30 Nov 2006 - 14:44

salaam

Jazakhallah for your kind words...

i will register the name tomorrow..
i wanted Jamal:-) but my wife hates it, or i wanted Gibreel, Mekaeel. But she wants either hasan, hadeed or shaheeb :roll:

but we have come to a compromise: Raihaan

what do you think?

every moment with baby is special ...but tiring, no sleep....but all worth it.

he's gonna have his hair cut on Monday....

picking up the baby is anew experience..i actually had a phobia of new born babies...thinking im gonna drop it!

babies are also expensive... but al hamdulilah..alll worth it...

at the mo...dont get much time for revival or anything else:-)

wasalaam

Omrow โ€” Thu, 30 Nov 2006 - 15:53

[quote="TheRevivalEditor"]
but we have come to a compromise: Raihaan

what do you think?

[/quote]

Not good.

Bad idea. Defeatist name.

Pious lady gave some nice suggestions.

Suleman, Daniel, Yusuf, Nasrullah, Aaron, Jacob, Ali, Gabriel, Micheal,
Abbas, Hassan, David, Peter, Jafar, Mohammed, Jamal, Kamal.

You โ€” Thu, 30 Nov 2006 - 15:55

Yeah Raihan sounds ok.

Better than Jamaal.

For names it is best to use a base-26 system with a unique method of interaction.

A+A = AA

Far easier than hex or binary.

Or 'Ed could name the kid 1337. what a beautiful number.

khan โ€” Thu, 30 Nov 2006 - 16:03

1337 is the name of an online multiplayer hacker..

i used to use one of his trainers(hack scripts) for gunz online.

google "1337 private trainer" and see what u find. i warn u its an addictive game.

Imaani โ€” Thu, 30 Nov 2006 - 16:44

Congratulations again Ed. May Allah (swt) bless your little family.

I think Raihaan is a beautiful name.