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"O GOD, forgive me and my parents, and the believers, on the day when the reckoning takes place." (Quran,14:41)

A Mother’s Love –  Immeasurable 

One afternoon my mother was about to eat an apple. She peeled the apple and sliced it into pieces. Just when she was about to have her first bite, I arrived home from work and headed straight to the kitchen. Upon hearing my entry, my mother deferred eating the apple. Instead she offered it me. I ate them all, not realising that my mother had peeled and sliced it for herself.

The day after, she fell sick and I had to send her to a hospital. She had to be hospitalised. Not long after she passed away.

That was the last apple that my mother gave me. She gave me the apple even she had prepared it for herself in the first place. But because of a mother’s love to a son, it meant more to her for me to have it.

The event above (told by my maid who was with my mother while she was peeling the apple) was one of the uncountable sacrifice my mother had made for me, I believe. It is immeasurable.

My mother died of cancer on 8^th July 2003. She never knew that she had been suffering from cancer for several years.

I will never be able to repay what my mother had sacrificed for me, even if she lives until my death.

I will always remember how this piece of property was purchased in the 60s. Life was difficult then, even when my father was a school headmaster. He had to sell his Morris Minor to make up for the deficit. For a few years after purchasing this land, he had to cycle 12 miles along the railway track to work. My fathers striver for our comfort will never be recompensible. This is just one of his striver. I wish that he lives a little bit longer so that I can repay him as much as possible.

God commanded us to give full  honour and respect to our parents as in the verse below :

"And your Lord decreed that you shall not serve except Him, and do good to your parents. When one of them or both of them reaches old age, do not say to them a word of disrespect nor raise your voice at them, but say to them a kind saying" (Quran,17:20)

Some of us, myself included, tend to be ignorant about the above command. I wish I can unwind time to undo many things that I have been disrespectful to my late parents.  A parents' dissatisfaction is seldom or even never expressed to their children. Small an issue it may be to us, like turning down their simple request for something that we can easily do, but we fail to quantify what they have sacrificed for our entire life.

I suppose no one can ever repay, in any measure, what a parent has given to their children. To those who still have parents, take full opportunity to repay them as much as possible. If you have to say 'no' to them, say it in the most polite manner, and only if the situation is unavoidable.

"My Lord, FORGIVE me and my PARENTs, and anyone who enters my home as a believer, and all the believing men and women. But do not give the disbelievers anything but annihilation." [Quran,71:28]