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The Story of Gou'reig
Obeying and being dutiful parents especially mothers is stressed so much in Islam, and disobeying them surely incurs God's wrath in this life and in the hereafter life. God has made obeying parents an ordinance next to worshipping Himself , and also He made thanking them next to thanking Himself(God). God said in the holy Quran what means:
In another verse God has made thanking parents (for caring and rearing you ) next to thanking Him. God says in the Holy Quran what means:
Prophet Mohhammed, in his hadiths, stressed the same meaning and he used to tell his companions real stories about how far obeying parents would bring God's blessings and pleasure. He also told them stories about those who disobeyed their parents and how they brought God's wrath on themselves. Among these inspiring stories that the prophet told his nation about was the story of Gou'reig. According to the prophet, Gou'reig , a Jewish ascetic, retired from life and lived in cell worshiping God day and night. The prophet said " None but just three babies spoke while they were still in their cradles: Jesus, Gou'reig…" He was a dutiful servant to God who worshipped his lord day and night, he kept most of his life fasting, he took for himself a small cell high on a mountain to worship God in. His uprightness was known to his contemporaries. It happened that his mother came to him in his cell to ask him for some help, he was doing a prayer, his mother called him saying" O' Gou'reig'. He in himself said:
He ignored his mother and kept on praying, so his mother went back home. On the next day she came and called him saying: " O' Gou'reig.
He ignored his mother and kept on praying. Seeing that her son ignored her on purpose despite her bad need to him, she prayed to God saying:
A Muslim Hajj carries his old mother during pilgrimageIt happened that some people from among the Jews were talking about Gou'reig and about his devotion in his worship, there was among them a whore who was known for her beauty, she said to them if you wish, I could seduce him." They asked her to do. She went to him and tried to seduce him but he gave her a blind eye. On her way back home she met a wicked shepherd, she seduced him and he slept with her and she became pregnant. When she gave birth to her baby, they (people of authority) asked her who the father of this child was. She said:" Gou'reig" They went to Gou'reig and took him down from his cell and demolished it, they kept beating him and he asked them: "For what do you beat me?"
He asked them to leave him for a while to do a prayer and they let him do, it is clear that he would ask God to help him prove his innocence. When he finished his prayer, he went to the baby and thrust him in his belly and said:
The baby, who was still in cradle, said:
So people (apologized) kissing and batting him, they offered to build him another cell, which is much better but he refused saying build it as it was from mud." Note the following:
By Magdy Abdalshafy Also read the Rights of Parents in Islam The story of a Man who recite Quran in his grave Women's right in Islam led her to Islam
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