Mother’s day. Another western custom that has slowly filtered through into the more conservative eastern culture. Growing up in a Muslim Indian home with relatively strong traditional and Islamic values, we really never celebrated Mother’s day. While the message of the day is to show love and appreciation for our mothers, I grew up with my mother firmly saying that we should be showing love and appreciation for all important people in our lives every day and not just on a randomly selected day each year.
With that in mind, I thought back to my early childhood days and wondered back on lessons from Islamic classes (aka Madressa). I was looking for guidelines on how to show appreciation and who to show it to and for some reason the only one hundred percent clear lesson was the words of Prophet Muhammed (P.B.U.H), “Paradise lies under the feet of your mother.”
And as the words rang through my mind, I found myself wondering how many stories the feet of our mothers had to tell. With the help of one of my best friends, I set out to discover the world under the feet of mothers around me and as I delved into unknown depths I discovered striking, strong women and the people they helped mould.
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