Immortal mothers
Out of Qur'anic guidance, we have been supplied wit superb examples of
good mothers who had influence and position in the history of the faith
in Allah. Moses" mother, for example, responded to Allah's inspiration
and calling when she cast the apple of her eye into the river, assured
of Allah's promise: "And We inspired the mother of
Moses, (saying):
`suckle him (Moses),
but when you fear for him, then cast him into the river and fear not, nor
grieve. Verily! We shall bring him back for you, and shall make him one
of (Our) Messengers."80
There is also Mary's mother, who promised what she had in her womb to be
devoted to Allah, to be pure of any polytheism or worship of anything other
than Allah. She prayed to Allah to accept her vow: "so
accept (this),
from me. Verily, You are the All-Hearer, the All-Knowing". 81When
the child turned out to be a female, which she had not expected, it did
not prevent her from fulfilling her vow, asking Allah to protect her from
all evil: "and I seek refuge with You (Allah)
for her and for her offspring from Satan, the outcast" 82
Moreover, the Qur'an has made Mary (may Allah be pleased with her), daughter
of `Imran and mother of the Prophet Jesus (peace be upon him), an example
of purity, humility to Allah and of faith in His word. "And
Mary, the daughter of `Imran who guarded her chastity; and We breathed
into (the sleeve of her shirt or her garment)
through Our "Ruh" (i.e. Gabriel),
and she testified to the truth of the Words of her Lord
(believed in the Words of Allah "Be! and he was; that is Jesus-son of Mary;-as
a Messenger of Allah), and (also
believed in) His Scriptures, and she was of
the Qanitun (i.e. obedient to Allah). 83