Maryam Amir – The Mother

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?