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The Historical Ideal of Muslim Motherhood

A woman waited patiently at the entrance of the masjid everyday, 5 times a day-while her little boy

prayed. Another dressed her son fastidiously , perfuming him before guiding him into the house of

greatest scholar of that era. A third mother packed her child off to Makkah with the instruction that

he immerse himself in the light of luminaries of religious knowledge. She soon followed to personally

administer his course of studies.

One common thing between all three woman is, all of them were single Mother. Orphaned, each

one, at a tender age, and raised to greatness by their single mothers, [b]these are the boys which

nearly all Muslims for a millennium have formed their understanding of how to practice what they

preach : ISLAM. [/b]

Dear brothers and sisters meet the three great Imams respectively

1. Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal2. Abu Hanifa3.

Ash-Shafiee May

And thank Allah for their devoted mothers. Now before you remark on the fourth Imam, Imam

Malik, mark it well that his mother (along with his father) intently and intentionally designed his

consecrated curriculum. All shows his mercy on all of them.

[b]We exalt none above Allah. But to deny the part these Mother played in the staggering

scholarly achievement of their rightly celebrated sons is something more then only futile

We owed little more to their sensational Sons than we do the wombs that bore them .[/b]

1. The Quranic MothersThe Quran gives numerous example of women, dividing these along tow divergent lines:

Women of ascension unto Heaven, whose examples the believers are to emulate; and Women

of descent into hell who serve as a forewarning of chastisement to unbelievers. Within these

broad categories, various various women in the Quran embody more virtue and vices :

Purity and Indecency, Modesty and arrogance, Obedience and flagrant defiance.

Only four archetypal mothers are directly mentioned in ways that are significant to their role as

believing mothers:

Ishmaels mother Hajar, Moses mother,Marys mother and Mary herself. May Allah be pleased

with all of them. The common denominator in each of these revealed narratives is the mothers

unwavering belief that this child of hers, however precious to her own heart, belongs , not to her

but to Allah and his Messenger(pbuh).

Ishmael and His Mother

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The story of emigration of his Hajar to the land of Ancient house, unlike of the Bible, endorses no

theory of rivalry between wives. Rather, Abraham is called