I am trying to go back to the title of this thread.
truthfinder in previous posts have endlessly espoused mother teresa as his role model in his community.
For me, my role model is of course prophet Muhammad SAW, but keeping with contemporary example which truth finder seems interested in, I offer my own mother as a role model.
There are similarities and differences between Mother Teresa and My mother.
Let's have a look at them:
1. Mother teresa was never married and stayed single all her life
1. My mother married, sacrificed her life ambition to work from home and raised her children (4), managed family finances and household affairs from nothing. When my father died when her children were all still in school, she worked extra hard to be able to send her children to school and all have graduated from the best universities in Indonesia, and a couple even went abroad.
2. Mother teresa helped the poor and the needy and the sick and the orphans and she had orphanages.
2. My mother, in addition to her responsibilities in the family and raising children by herself, has also always been involved and very active in many social organizations and undertakings. She always donated to the neighborhood poor, she served as the neighborhood community chief, she is active in helping quite a few orphanages and she always encourages all of us to help those orphanages.
3. Mother teresa prayed to jesus and mary
3. My mother performed daily shalah, five times a day EVERY DAY, without fail, worshipping the ONE GOD SWT. She also frequently wakes up in the middle of the night, take wudoo (ablution) and perform the night shalah and make supplications to GOD SWT. She also fast during the month of ramadan, and she often do optional monday/thursday fastings.
4. Mother teresa was extremely famous and was in the world news for decades. She also received nobel peace prize. Catholic church has beatified her and intend to make her a saint.
4. My mother is not famous at all, but she has many many friends. And she does not even know that I am typing all the good things the she has done. As the case with many pious and good muslims, she does not like to advertise her good deeds because she is afraid of riya' and she wants to keep her intention pure.
5. After her death, many people prayed to mother teresa, asking for intercessions and many other things because she is "beatified" and will be made a saint (or maybe she is a saint already? it is hard to keep up with thousands of saints)
5. My mother is still alive, but when she dies, many people, or at the very least her own children will keep asking God SWT to forgive her and raise her status in the hereafter InshaAllah.
