Mother ❤

A mother's love runs deep and its power knows no limit.

No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star. 
— Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Moms are always there to lend a listening ear.

Mother is the bank where we deposit all our hurts and worries. — Author Unknown

I recognized the significance of women and mothers' status in Islam and how they were held in high regard, not as the stereotyped second class citizens some may wrongly portray.

Since there is this negative typecast of how Islam views women, many non-Muslims may not know that mothers specifically, and parents in general, are held in very high esteem in the faith.

In other words, the debt we owe to our mothers is magnified due to the difficult nature of pregnancy - not to mention the nurturing and attention paid to us in our infancy. Moreover, we must treat our mothers in a manner befitting their exalted position - and, again, revere the wombs that bore us.

Contrary to what some may believe regarding women in Islam, we are commanded to treat women with kindness, and are ordered to respect and obey our parents with specific emphasis and preference given to the mother. Indeed Prophet Muhammad highlighted the significance and standing of women in Islam in his last sermon, where he cited:

"Do treat your women well and be kind to them, for they are your partners and committed helpers." (At-Timidhi, 276)

Islam is the best reminder of any mother's presence with the daily encouragement from the Quran and the living example of Prophet Muhammad.  While he never saw his father because he died before his birth and he lost his mother when he was six years old, Muhammad (peace be upon him), understood the importance of one’s parents, especially the mother. He narrates:

"Do good to and serve your mother, then your mother, then your mother, then your father, then the near relatives and then those who come after them." (Al-Bukhari, 5971)

The privileged reiterated status of the mother here, in Islam, is differing to the endless articles on 'Women in Islam' which regrettably tend to collapse the status of women and the reverence for mothers in Islam.

"Paradise lies at the feet of mothers." (An-Nasa'i, 3104)

What can be greater evidence of honoring women than this?

Islam has effectively placed the ultimate reward for human beings in their devotion to their mothers.

Abdullah ibn Abbas, a companion of the Prophet and a great scholar of Islam, considered the kind treatment of one's mother to be the best deed for strengthening or rectifying one's relation with God. He relays:

"I know of no other deed that brings people closer to God than kind treatment and respect towards one's mother."

THANK YOU MOTHER.