Maryam Amir – The Mother
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The speaker discusses the impact of Islam on their daughter, who has been struggling with depression and anxiety. They talk about the importance of women in their generation and how their father, who they call a mother, has had a direct impact on their daughter's life and mental health. They also mention the need for mothers to raise children like their mother.
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I have been following Ahmed Hijazi for a few years now. Prior to the
genocide, his content really focused on the Quran and the
people of ghazah and just beautiful Islamic inspiration. I
had never seen his mother prior to the genocide, and he showed her
when their home was bombed and how she was comforting him and giving
him words of advice. Recently, his brother and her son were was
martyred. May Allah enter him into the highest paradise. And many of
you may have seen the clip of her praising Allah. She says that she
was afflicted with illness, and she thanked Allah. Her home was
bombed, and she thanked Allah. Her son was taken kidnapped as a
hostage. And she thinks Allah that He has her son was March hurt. And
now she thinks Allah, I have seen people when they lose, you know, a
material possession, their response is, why me? Why? God? Why
did this happen to me? And I fully understand where the question
comes from. I respond with complete empathy for someone who
is trying to navigate that question, but I want to contrast
that with the way that Ahmed's mother has an outlook for her life
and the way that it's impacted her son, Ahmed, because before I knew
about the mother, I was inspired by him, and now I see who raised
him, and I've been thinking about us as women. For any of you who
are mothers, or any of you who hope to become mothers one day, or
any of you who have the influence of a younger sibling or a younger
cousin, or if you're a teacher, you're students, or in any
capacity, younger people, what we do, how we train ourselves in our
relationship with Allah has a direct impact on those whom we
nurture. Where is our time? Where is our focus? Where is our heart's
focus? That someone like Ahmed's mother clearly a woman of the
Quran, the fact that her reaction is, how am I going to show my
acceptance that this oppression is happening to me? It doesn't mean
she doesn't speak against or or stand against the oppression in
every way. But how is her internal conversation with Allah's Panama
to Allah, her internal conversation is not I've already
gone through so much. Why is this happening too? It is Allah. I
trust you. We need the mothers of Ahmed Hijazi to raise men like
Ahmed hajazi. Who are we going to raise?