Apart
from her role as a wife, the Muslim woman has
a very important role as mother. The status and value attached to parents
in the Muslim world is very high. A woman becomes complete when she becomes
a mother. Enjoying her power of creativity and grade of superiority over
man, she experiences those precious feelings and senses, which nature gives
only to woman. There is no doubt that as a mother, she is superior to man
and is the nucleus of her family!
Noble Qur'an says:
"And your Lord has commanded
that you shall not serve (any) but Him, and goodness to your parents. If
either or both of them reach old age with you, say not to them (so much as)
"Ugh" nor chide them, and speak to them a generous word. And make
yourself submissively gentle to them with compassion, and say: O my Lord!
Have compassion on them, as they brought me up (when I was) little."
Noble Qur'an (17:23-24)
Again Noble Qur'an says:
And We have enjoined man in respect
of his parents - his mother bears him with faintings upon faintings and his
weaning takes two years - saying: Be grateful to Me and to both your
parents; to Me is the eventual coming. And if they contend with you that
you should associate with Me what you have no knowledge of, do not obey
them, and keep company with them in this world kindly, and follow the way
of him who turns to Me, then to Me is your return, then will I inform you
of what you did. Noble Qur'an (31:14-15)
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