Today Hadith

"A man asked the Prophet: 'Whom should I honour most?' The Prophet replied: 'Your mother'. 'And who comes next?' asked the man. The Prophet replied: 'Your mother'. 'And who comes next?' asked the man. The Prophet replied: 'Your mother!' 'And who comes next?' asked the man. The Prophet replied: 'Your father'"

A man once consulted the Prophet Muhammad about taking part in a military campaign. The Prophet asked the man if his mother was still living. When told that she was alive, the Prophet said: "(Then) stay with her, for Paradise is at her feet." (Al-Tirmidhi)

What is a Mother?

We all know that in Islam a Mother is to be respected and she should have the highest status in your life after our Lord Allah (swt) and our Prophet (saw).

Paradise lies beneath our mother’s feet, but do we respect that paradise?
Do we respect and thank our Lord for giving us one of life’s most important things, without which we wouldn’t be alive, if we didn’t have a mother who would teach us the principles of life?

Ask those unfortunate ones who would be willing to do what not just to have a mother, ask them how painful it is to know that you don’t have a mother to pat you to sleep, to sing you lullaby’s, to pick you up when you fall and to kiss your pain goodbye.

We all know that soon Mother’s day is to come and who wouldn’t know especially if you walk past Clinton Cards or some gift shop. It’s impossible to miss.
But tell me truthfully are you the ideal son or daughter for your mother, do you just give her a card on mothers day or give her that love every day? Because, I’ll let you on a secret, mother’s day is EVERYDAY!

You should be there next to your mother helping her massaging her pain away everyday; you should care for her cook for her and listen to her everyday.

Do you know in Islam if your mother is angry with you till the very end you won’t ever be able to say the Shahadah, It is only if your mother forgives you that those beautiful words will be able to pass your lips before you die.

I’m sure you’ve heard the story of Alqamah, he was a man alive at the time of our Prophet (saw), he was a religious man, who always prayed five times a day and always obeyed Allah’s words, but one day when he was lying on his deathbed he was unable to repeat the Shahadah, because he disobeyed his mother.
The Prophet (saw) said:
“Bilal, go out and collect a quantity of firewood.”
Alqamah’s mother said, “Messenger of Allah, what do you plan to do?” He replied, “I will burn him in front of your eyes.”
Now which mother do you think will be able to see her son burn in front of her eyes, she said no don’t I won’t be able to see him in so much pain.
The Prophet (saw) said it is better he burn here in front of you rather then in the hellfire because Allah won’t forgive him for disobeying you.
So she forgave him, and when Bilal entered the room where Alqamah was dying he heard him repeat the Shahadah and die.

What does that story teach you? R E S P E C T Y O U R M O T H E R
If your mother is angry with you right now I beg you please go to her and ask her for forgiveness, care for her, give her the happiest life ever because that is what she did for you.

Our Prophet (saw) says that I will curse three kinds of people, first those who don’t take full advantage of the month of Ramadan, second those who don’t say SALLALLAHU ’ALAYHI WA LAHI WA SALLAM after my name is mentioned and third those who don’t take care of and respect their parents when they reach old age.

So go and take what I have said in account, and make your chances of reaching paradise increase, because everything we do in this life affects where we reach in the hereafter.