The Human Cohesion Project — 10 May 2020
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Aminah bint Wahb, the mother of prophet Mohammed, has been on my mind today. Widowed while being a few a weeks into her pregnancy, she went on to deliver her son, only to give him up as a baby, to the desert. As was the tradition in those times, babies of her class of families used to be sent into the desert so that they are exposed to the rigours of nature and learn discipline and resilience early in life. She lived the prime of her life as a single mother, devoid of her child. He was brought back to her when he was around five. They reunited only for a short while though, since she passed away from an illness a couple of years later (around 577 AD).
While the prophet birthed a religion and was celebrated, she birthed the prophet and merged into oblivion. Perhaps, her destiny was motherhood. Having fulfilled it, life snuck her back into its womb.
It is strange, that most religions that exist now are fathered by men. I wonder what it might have been like, had they been mothered instead? May be, the womb does not know how to birth one.
- What did you mother today?
Ramadan Kareem. May life wash over you with the benevolent mother’s gaze.
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