Mother, The Architect of Civilization

One night a calm and quiet. Everyone has moved into their homes to rest. Pulled the covers up to be protected from the cold surrounding Medina horizon. However, a man who awakened by a sense of responsibility as leaders unveil his blanket. He came out hallways that gripped Medina. Crawl the streets deserted of human footprints.

He came out alone through the darkness. Perhaps he found the traveler who does not find a place to sleep. Or people who moan in pain. Or hungry people who have yet to find a bite of food to prop her stomach. Perhaps there are business people who escape from supervision. Or there may be a lost sheep away by the river Euphrates. Allah will ask him and count later.

Do not be fooled! The man was Commander of the Faithful, Umar ibn Khatthab RA.

After all this time around Madinah and began to feel tired at the joints, Umar leaning on one wall of a small house in the suburbs of Medina. He took a break before proceeding towards the mosque.

At that time, he heard the faint sound of two women in a small house where he rests. Conversation a mother with her ​​daughter. Conversation in which the princess refuses to mix dairy milk with water.

The mother said, "Mix the milk with water!" The princess replied, "Truly, Commander of the Faithful has forbidden us to mix the milk with water. Do not you hear the spokesman expressed the ban? "

'Umar did not see us. He will not know what we do at the last moment this evening. "Answered his mother.

Her daughter immediately replied, "O my mother, although Umar Umar did not see but God sees us. By Allah, I will not do what was forbidden him. "

Speech daughter of Umar was soothing. The answers describe the honesty and faith.

Umar finally marry his son, Ashim, with that nice girl. The girl was named Ummu Ammarah bint Sufyan bin Abdullah bin Rabi'a Ats-Tsaqafi. Later she will give birth to two girls named Laila and Hafsah. Laila then fondly known as Ummu Ashim. Ummu Ashim then married to Abdul Aziz ibn Marwan, a governor Bani Marwan. From this sacred marriage of noble birth of a caliph, Umar bin Abdul Aziz.

Umar bin Abdul Aziz, who was nicknamed the Fifth Caliph was the leader of the understated. Level of unquestioning faith. Umar's Quran memorized since childhood. Her eyes always floods of tears because of his fear of God. When Umar ibn Abdul Aziz became caliph, no one becomes mustahik. No person entitled to receive zakat. Affluent and prosperous citizens. While Omar is very simple life.

What makes Omar has such an amazing person? Ummu Ashim, Omar's mother, educated from childhood with great affection. Umar taught the Quran and the love of God. He always watches over his son.

Ummu Ashim also known as the woman who was very generous and loving people who are weak. Ummu Ashim represent the idealized image of a mother figure. Likewise, the mother of Ummu  Ashim. His fear of God makes it a superior person.

Modeling these women become vital evidence of a mother in shaping a generation. A poet reveals that the mother is a school. If prepared properly, meaning it has prepared a nation with a good foundation. Not an exaggeration of course. Mother is the first and primary schools for their children. Container like a mother who teaches and educates a wide range of science in children's lives with love and affection. As an early educator, the mother who first laid the basic foundations, especially in the aspect of faith-to the child in the process of mental maturation and maturation of the soul.

Importance of a mother's job description included in the statement expressed by DR. A. Madjid Katme, President of the Association of Muslim Physicians in London in a world conference on women in Beijing. narrative following:

"The task of motherhood is the most honorable job and requires skill in the world. And implementation of this task is very important for the maintenance and protection of children, especially in the early days of growth. No one type of work can ever rob a mother of her maternal duties. And no one who can take over the motherly duties. "

However, so many Muslim women who lack do not even understand the importance of the role of a mother. Roles, according to Katme, can not be replaced by anyone. Being a full-time mother is considered only 'work' is not important. Do not need a high school, need not smart to be a mother. Wrong! You just have to be a Muslim who is very smart to be able to fulfill the role of motherhood.

The glory of motherhood today are increasingly eroded by the western attack. After the Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet, it is often attacked by the orientalists were women and its role in the family.

The ideas of feminism, gender equality, and freedom of women today voiced vigorous west to Muslims. We also know that not a few who stuck to taste the poison in the name of freedom of the woman. Finally, Destroyed the glory and dignity of women is followed by the collapse of the pillars of family and children's education.

Islam has taught the glory of motherhood. History has recorded many great people who were born from a mother who is also great. There was never a flaw in the role of motherhood. There was never a blemish on the title of a mother. So do not be excessive if there is a saying that heaven is in mother's feet.

Muslim women need to realize its vital role as a mother. Mother not just three letters, I - B - U, which is so simple to easily forgotten. Mother not just a trivial predicate so that its role does not need to be met.

Mother is an important node of a connection civilization. He will print out a generation. Mother is a pole that will fly the flag back to the glory of Islam through the education of the family. mother, never significantly smaller. Because the God who made ​​it so glorious.