"THEN WHICH OF THE FAVORS OF YOUR LORD
DO YOU DENY?"
From Surah al-Rahman are the glorious words
of our Creator: "Then which of the favors of
your Lord will your deny?"
Yet how often we deny the greatest of favors
that the Bestower has granted us. This
favor,in the form of awoman...
A woman who carried us within her for
almost a whole year of her short life in this
world, bearing every hardship and discomfort
to protect and nurture our frail being as the
Fashioner gently prepared us to come into
this worldly realm...
A woman who braved death's door,
embracing pain unimaginable to even the
most stalwart of warriors, that our tiny form
may chance to take its first breath, open its
eyes to the light of a new home, and feel her
warm, soft caress,as she forgets all that she
went through, to make comfortable our
awakening into a new world...
A woman who had forsaken rest, slumber,
and dreams for far too many nights; to rise
instead, and answer the pitiful wail of a
helpless creature that always knew she would
be there to answer its plaintive cry, even as
the whole world slumbered on into the dead
of the night...
A woman who we call Mother.
If we only knew her lofty station in the sight
of He whose mercy is endless, a single portion
of which He showered upon the world and it
manifested itself as the undying compassion
of the mother to her child.
"THEN WHICH OF THEFAVORS OFYOUR LORD DO
YOU DENY?"
To deny is to show ingratitude. To show
ingratitude is to lose one's blessings... like
sand flowing through one's fingers.
To show ingratitude to the all Merciful is to
show ingratitude to the means He creates out
of His endless mercy. WHAT OF THE MEANS
WHICH BROUGHT US INTO THE WORLD?
If one's mother is alive, then cry out of
thankfulness to ALLAAH, look her in the eyes
and tell her how blessed you are for someone
like her...
Tell her how much you love her...
And never forget the immortal words of our
Beloved Prophet (Peace Be Upon Hm):
"Paradise is under the feet of the mother..." ♥