It is Ramadan, and I am very thankful for all the blessings Allah has bestowed on me recently and through my life - I have been incredibly fortunate (if for nothing else knowing the people I have profiled here and will continue to profile this month). Despite all my fortune, I am humbly reminded of those who have so much less in so many places. And in those places, too many faces belong to women, my - our sisters.
I think about all the women I have met fighting to make a life supporting children with half the privileges I am granted daily. I think of the men who have abandoned them to chase a life already so much simpler. I think of the women I have hurt, and I pray that I will hurt no more. I think of the cultures, governments, and perversions of religions that take so much from those who give so much. I pray for my sisters, their mothers, and their daughters. And finally, I pray for myself and my brothers too stupid to know that we squander God's gifts too easily, and that He knows not to task us too greatly, as we are so much weaker than our sisters, and that the burdens they bear would break and destroy us. Too many prayers perhaps for one night.
And all the sisters you have pray for you in return.
ReplyDeleteI read once "Allah counts the tears of women" and it scared me. There will be a certain punishment for the men who make women cry...Allah is fair, and I truely pray for forgiveness for thosE who made us cry.