A Mothers Love

**Tazkiyahtulnafs** · 04-28-2005

read this it is sad but yet touching
READ THiS!iTS SO SAD =[

*If you have a heart you will repost this.*

my mom only had one eye..
i hated the fact that i had to be stuck with a retard for a mother.
i hated her... she was such an embarressment..
my mom ran a small shop at a flea market.
she collected little weeds and such to sell... anything for the money we needed
she was such an embarressment.
there was this one day during elementary school..
it was field day, and my mom came.
i was so embarressed. how could she do this to me? i threw her a hateful look and ran out.

the next day at school...
"your mom's a retard with one eye?!?!" ..and they taunted me.
i wished that my mom would just dissappear from this world
so i said to my mom,
"mom.. why dont you have the other eye?!
if you're only gonna make me a laughingstock, why dont you just die?!!!"
my mom did not respond..
i guess i felt a little bad, but at the same time, it felt good to think that i had said what i'd wanted to say all this time..
maybe it was because my mom hadnt punished me,
but i didnt think that i had hurt her feelings very badly.

that night...
i woke up, and went to the kitchen to get a glass of water.
my mom was crying there, so quietly, as if she was afraid that she might wake me.
i took a look at her, then turned away.
because of the thing i had said to her earlier, there was something pinching at me in the corner of my heart.
even so, i hated my mother who was crying out of her one eye. so i told myself that i would grow up and become successful.
cause i hated my one-eyed mom and our desperate poverty..

then i studied real hard.
i left my mother and came to Seoul and studied, and got accepted in the Seoul University with all the confidence i had.

then, i got married.
i bought a house of my own.
then i had kids, too..
now i'm living happily as a successful man.
i like it here because it's a place that doesnt remind me of my mom.

this happiness was getting bigger and bigger, when..

what?!
who's this?!
...it was my mother...
..still with her one eye.
it felt as if the whole sky was falling apart on me.
my little girl ran away, scared of my mom's eye.
and i asked her,

"who are you?!"
"i dont know you!!!" as if trying to make that real. i screamed at her," how dare you come to my house and scare my daughter!"

"GET OUT OF HERE! NOW!!!"

and to this, my mother quietly answered,
"oh, i'm so sorry. i may have gotten the wrong address,"
and she dissappeared out of sight.

thank good ness... she doesnt recognize me..
i was quite relieved.

i told myself that i wasnt going to care, or think about this for the rest of my life.
then a wave of relief came upon me...

one day, a letter regarding a school reunion came to my house. so, lying to my wife that i was going on a business trip, i went.
after the reunion, i went down to the old shack, that i used to call a house...just out of curiosity

there, i found my mother fallen on the cold ground.
but i did not shed a single tear.
she had a piece of paper in her hand.... it was a letter to me.

my son...
i think my life has been long enough now..

and... i wont visit Seoul anymore...
but would it be too much to ask if i wanted you to come visit me once in a while?
i miss you so much.. and i was so glad when i heard you were coming for the reunion.
but i decided not to go to the school.
...for you...
and i'm sorry that i only have one eye, and i was an embarressment for you.

you see, when you were very little, you got into an accident, and lost your eye. as a mom, i couldnt stand watching you having to grow up with only one eye... so i gave you mine...
i was so proud of my son that was seeing a whole new wolrd for me, in my place, with that eye. i was never upset at you for anything you did.. the couple times that you were angry with me,.. i thought to myself, 'it's because he loves me..'

my son... oh, my son...
i dont want you to cry for me, because of my death.

please dont cry....
my son, i love you so much.

something gripped the corner of my heart.

and tears were flowing from the eye that my mother had given me..
my mom... my loving mom...
such simple words as 'i love you', that i never told her...
such simple things as buying my mom a dinner.
such simple things as buying her pretty clothes... that i never did...

and still, my mom loved me til her very end....
im sorry..
it wasnt my mom that was the retard with one eye...
it was me, that....

all these things i realized too late... mother, please forgive me...
mother, im sorry... im so sorry.....
and the words i never got around to telling you,....

i love you.
...i love you mom...

**Ibn Syed** · 04-28-2005

That is the saddest story I have ever seen. Where did you get it.

**Tazkiyahtulnafs** · 04-29-2005

one of my little muslimahs send it to me just a today and i thought it would be nice to share it with my muslim brothers and sisters

**Ibn Syed** · 04-29-2005

Is it a true story????

**Abdul Fattah** · 04-29-2005

Is it a true story

I was wondering the same thing. If I'm not mistaken, it's still unpossible for docters to transplant an eye, I'm not 100% sure though...

My guess would be no, it ain't true, still a sad story though :'(

**Ra`eesah** · 04-29-2005

Assalamu'Alaykum

YA Allah taz wallahi u know how soft hearted i am and this story didnt help me one bit... Subhanallah , I dont think the point of the story is if its tru or not but its moral behind it, and how we treat our parents i dont think a mother would hesitate if they told her to give her eye for her child no mother would. See if this mother would have given a kidney or heart transplant this story wouldnt have been soo dramatic it would have been a yea well so what... but she gave an eye something that is very preasiou to a human. Reading this story has made me reflect. Subhanallah what a mother goes through. and how we treat them Alhamdulilllah for Islam, teaches us the level and status of a mother. this is what is called unconditional love.

**aamirsaab** · 04-29-2005

great poem - excellent!
lovely read

inshalla we will all benefit from this :applaud:

**Far7an** · 04-29-2005

:'(:'(

May Allah forgive us for our shortcomings.

**Bint Abdusattar** · 04-29-2005

:'( :'(
Thanks for the story. i learnt to appreciate everything/everyone i have and despite their shortcomings for i may have many that i'm not aware of and those which people put up with me.

Was quite a sad story though

SMILE! ALLAH LOVES YOU

**Tazkiyahtulnafs** · 04-29-2005

i doubt that it is real but to me it had morals since alot of people dont treat their mothers with the right amont of honor and respect and it helped me to reflect and thats why i posted it

**S_87** · 04-29-2005

thats so sad
im crying here after reading it

whether its possible or impossible for the eye transplant i think this story teaches that our mums would do anything for us than to see their child suffering :'(

**aamirsaab** · 04-29-2005

i love my mum

**h1jabi_sista** · 04-29-2005

thats the saddest thing ive read in a long time...it made me cry!
i love my mom soooo much alhamdulilah! when i think of all she's done for me. she's like my role model. may allah bless her and grant her paradise. ameen

if thats a true story id be soooooo angry wid the person who did that to their mom! :mad:

**SalafiFemaleJih** · 04-29-2005

I had a fight with my mom :sad:

I feel bad now....

walaikum salaam wr wb.

**Protected_Diamond** · 04-30-2005

awwwwwwwwh man thats so sad

**Uthman** · 04-30-2005

Subhan'Allah that was a very sad story.

**Lateralus63** · 05-01-2005

This is a very very symbolic story, it conveys the utter blindness of our treatment parents by showing sheer irony, irony as in, the missing eye which he hated, was the very eye he had in his socket. Very symbolic. Touching story.

**Ansar Al-'Adl** · 05-01-2005

I just read this now. Mash'Allah, it is a very touching story and is very symbolic. As was mentioned before about the mother taking her child's defect upon herself in order to give him more perfection. Subhan'Allah, it's something to think about.

I think it would be a good idea if TAZKIYAHTULNAFS posted this story in the following thread so more members can benefit from it:
http://www.islamicboard.com/showthread.php?t=1583

**Tazkiyahtulnafs** · 05-01-2005

ja'zakAllahu khair brother for the idea

**Pinkrose** · 05-09-2005

very sad story subhanallah. omg. This really made me cry and it also made me think of the way we treat our parents. omg. i really didn't know what to think. Thanks so much for sharing this poem sis. it teach a great lesson.