Paradise Is Under Her Feet

When a voice makes us forget everything earthly, when it enchants our soul like a heavenly dream ( Allah, the All-Forgiving, put the command to respect one’s parents right after the command to worship Him, and made a special mention of the mother’s sacrifices as described in Surah Luqman, Ayah 14: “And We have commanded people to honour their parents. Their mothers bore them through hardship upon hardship, and their weaning takes two years. So be grateful to Me and your parents. To Me is the final return.” “The mother is in the middle of the doors of Paradise.“ (Ibn Hanbal, V, 198)