brother4ever
Junior Member
Assalamoaleykum
Dear Brothers & Sisters
It is reported by a trustworthy man of the past that as I was passing through a street he saw the door of a house open. A woman came out with a child who was crying and pleading while she was pushing him out. She left him outside the house and slammed the door on his face. The child left the door and walked a distance. Then he stopped, looked about, began to think, and not finding any other place but his own house where he could take shelter nor anyone who would care for him as his mother would, he returned to his house dejected, sad. He found the door shut.
He sat at the sill, put his cheek on the threshold and slept with tear marks on his cheeks. He was in this state when the mother opened the door. When she saw him in this state, she could not control herself.She bent down, grabbed him to her bosom, began to kiss him and said, in tears, "Oh my boy! My dear child! My soul! Where were you? Didn't I tell you not to disobey me? Do my bidding, and don't force me to punish you,while I hate to do that." Then she carried the child back and closed the door behind her.
That is a story of a mother and a child, the story of disobedience, punishment, return, forgiveness and unbound love. But the Holy Prophet
has told us that, ":Allah: loves His creation more than a woman does her child." In fact, there is no comparison between the love of a mother for her child and that of :Allah: whose mercy encompasses everything. :Allah: is immensely pleased with a man when he repents and turns to him. And we shall never be deprived of anything by a Lord who is more pleased with the repenting man, than that man who was travelling through an arid land. He dismounted and took shelter under a tree seeking some shelter under a tree seeking some rest. He lay there with his beast, loaded with food and water, at his side. However, when he awoke, lo! The beast was gone. He began to search for it frantically.He climbed a hill but couldn't see a trace of it. Finally, when hunger and thirst overtook him, he said, "Let me go back to the tree, and lay down there until death overtakes me." So he went back to the tree, and lay there with eyes closed - in total despair. Lo! As he opened his eyes and raised his head, there the beast was, right before his very eyes.With all the food and water loaded on it intact! He rushed to it and picked up its halter. (Can you imagine his happiness?) :Allah: is happier with a man when he turns to Him seeking forgiveness, than the man who found his beast when he had lost all hopes.
ALLAH HAFIZ