Make this intention and witness what happens. If we are successful in truly making this good intention, our mindset will become positive at once. We already possess love for our children, but it will increase further. We will wish to be gentle in our approach to raising them, and we will become positive in relation to any dreams and plans we have regarding their futures.

2) Blessings are protected from becoming misfortunes

We receive much goodness and success in the world, but it is not necessary that every outwardly good thing is a blessing for every person. Worldly success, wealth, health and status can become a hardship. Look at Firʿawn. He was a king, but was it a blessing for him? No! Qārūn was extremely wealthy, and perhaps richer than the richest person alive today, but was it a blessing for him? No! It was a misfortune in his right.

If we get into the habit of making good intentions, اِنْ شَــآءَالـلّٰـه any blessings and successes we receive in the world will be safeguarded from becoming misfortunes. Just think! Wealth which is earned for the sake of the world is a means of ruin in the Hereafter, but if we make good intentions in earning money, then it will become a means of salvation in the Hereafter.

He is on the path of Allah

In a hadith narrated in al-MuꜤjam al-Ṣaghīr, the Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم was sitting with his Companions رَضِیَ اللهُ عَنْهُم one morning, when a strong and physically able young man passed by them on his way to earn a living. The Companions looked at him and commented, “If only his youth and strength was spent in the way of Allah.”

Upon this, the Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم stated:

Do not say this. If he is striving to save himself from begging and to become independent of people, he is then undoubtedly in the