10 Wonderful Reasons to be grateful to your mother...

1. Your mother carried you for 9 months bearing pain upon pain.
2. During this time, she could not eat becuase of you! She could not sleep because of you!
3. When you were a baby, she spent every minute of her life looking after you!
4. She only slept when you slept! She only ate after you had eaten!
5. She was patient and loved you even when you cried all night and when you cried all day !
6. She taught you how to walk, how to speak, how to eat, she taught you how to live!
7. When you fall ill, she looks after you!
8. She always cooks and prepared food for you !
9. She buys you whatever you ask for !
10. She loves you unconditionally !

These are just a few things that our Mothers do for us; they do so much more of which we do not know about. However, one thing that your Mother does for you, that nobody else in the world does, is that she worries about you from the bottom of her Heart. So what is it she really worries about...?

She WORRIES about your food!
She WORRIES about your clothes!
She WORRIES about your health!
She WORRIES about your education!
She WORRIES about your future!
She WORRIES about your whole life !

Even when we are old and weak we should still be looking after our mothers for this is an order from Allah. He taught us to be gentle and say kind words to them in a nice manner. If our mothers has asked us to a something, it being a chore, or whatever it may be...if we utter the word "Oof..." then Allah will not accept that chore from us. By paying back our mothers favour, by being kind, loving and dutiful towards them is the absolute minimum that we can do!

So you want to hear about the 10 Easy peasy ways to enter Jannah...:

1. LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER
2. HELP YOUR MOTHER
3. SMILE AT YOUR MOTHER
4. BE THANKFUL TO YOUR MOTHER FOR WHATEVER SHE DOES FOR YOU
5. SPEND TIME WITH YOUR MOTHER
6. ALWAYS ASK YOUR MOTHER IF YOU CAN HELP HER WITH ANYTHING
7. BUY YOUR MOTHER GIFTS
8. BE GOOD TO YOUR MOTHER’S FAMILY AND FRIENDS
9. STUDY HARD AND LEAD A GOOD LIFE SO THAT YOUR MOTHER IS HAPPY
10. ALWAYS PRAY FOR YOUR MOTHER, ESPECIALLY AFTER EVERY SALAAH.

Not much to ask for is it?? We will only truly realise the value of our mothers when they are no longer with us – when they have passed away, but then it will be too late! So let us not adapt to the attitudes that we find our cultures sadly into, where mothers are nothing more than serving girls and the fathers are nothing more than errand boys...