A tribute to Ramadans Sufi Mothers by JAIHOON Marriage is one half patience. The other half if anything left is Love. Unfortunately, such patience is mostly one-sided. In fact, most relationships live on with the unilateral patience on the part of the wife and rarely from the husband. The reason why it is proverbial to blame the impatient wife for the increase in divorce rates. Self-righteous Muslim husbands, who passionately teach their kids about paradise found under their wives’ feet, should also show empathy for their spouses and try not to make their lives a living hell here. There’s been no other community as the Asian Muslim women, more so than their western counterparts, who have historically relinquished their Divine rights in favor of their men. They are victims of everyday denial of justice from morn to evening. And such injustice is more in this Month. Although they give up food and water just as their menfolk, in addition to surviving lengthy prayers and completion of recitation of the Holy Book, they also have to make sure the Iftar table is full of delicious delicacies with all ingredients in the most finger-licking proportion. Rearing children including teaching, feeding, bathing and dressing are besides. Washing dishes, cleaning the entire house and laundry are not recognised as well. The case is no different for the working mothers in whose case it is several times more the station of patience. Simply because they have been created as compassionate creatures and out of self-imposed ignorance of their rights, they perform these duties which were never part of the responsibilities mentioned in the Law of God. Only Allah can reward them fully for this selfless life of jihad. The least their men could afford to repay is with token of love. The Day of Judgment and Paradise become inevitable in the case of these ‘sufi mothers’ at least. Amid all the spiritual and philosophical talk surrounding Ramadan, it would be a great disservice to ignore the contribution of the womenfolk at home. - JAIHOON jaihoon/11003.htm Read complete collection of Ramadan journals @ jaihoon/tag/ramadan-2014
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 20:00:10 +0000
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