A piece of heaven

I think many people would agree that one of the best things in life is seeing your parents smile and hearing them laugh. What's even better is when you know that you put those smiles on their faces. When you were the one to make them laugh. I love it when that happens. It feels so rewarding and, as cheesy as it sounds, it always fills my heart with warm bubbles of absolute joy.

It's one of the little things that I miss the most about home when I'm in London. Back at home I was always up to silly and weird things that would make my mother facepalm herself and wonder loudly, "Where did I go wrong?!" But in the end it would still make her laugh and say, "Menyampah la tengok awak ni," and for some reason that usually makes me really happy.

This morning over breakfast, I randomly decided to watch a video on Bayyinah TV about mothers. In the introduction video, Nouman Ali Khan explained the definition of the Arabic word for 'mother' and where it was derived from. This is what I love about the Arabic language: a lot of the words are derived from old terms, so each word has their own 'history', so to speak. In this case, the Arabic word for mother, 'Umm', has different implications – leadership, uniqueness, foundation, and the most important unit (to name but a few). I'm not going to elaborate on everything, but the bottom line is, obviously, our mothers are the most important person in our lives and in the shaping of our being.

Most of the good things happening to us right now are a direct impact of someone's prayer for us... and that 'someone' is usually our mother. Isn't it? No matter how old you are, and how old she is, a mother's sole concern will always be the wellbeing of her children. There are times when the only person who can make things better is your mother. There's a saying that goes, "A mother is she who can take the place of all others, but whose place no one else can take." Damn right.

I don't know whether watching the video was a good or a bad idea, because now I'm feeling a little homesick -___- I wish I could quickly fly back home, give my mom (and my dad, and my siblings, and my maid, and maybe everyone in KL) a great big hug and a kiss and come back here. But that obviously ain't gonna happen.

I just wanted to share this and make you guys homesick too because I didn't want to be the only one. Haha, kidding. I just figured that it would be nice to remind everyone that there's at least one person in our lives who will keep cheering us on no matter what happens, and that that person is none other than the one who gave birth to us. I think moms are a piece of heaven.

Towards the end of his video, Nouman said, "The joy of our mothers is not just a gift of Allah to them (i.e. our mothers); the joy and happiness of our mothers is a gift of Allah to us. When our mothers are happy, we will find a good life." 

I think that statement's self-explanatory. Time to make our mothers happy!