I once read a story about a son and his mother way back in the Prophet's time (PBUH). Don't ask me where did i read/heard it, i don't really remember. The story more or less went like this. A pious son lived with his mother. He was all a mother can ask for, obedient, god-fearing, responsible, a perfect son. Next to the word of God, his mother's wishes he fulfilled to the best of his abilities. All was well with the world until one day the son fell in love with a girl of his dreams. He loved the girl but he loved his mother best. He feared that should he marry he could no longer take care of his mother as the best he could like he always did. The mother saw the son's anguish at being torn in two and so she told the son, "marry the girl". The son, obediently obeyed and so he married the girl. Slowly, marital bliss changed him. He slowly forgot his responsibilities towards his mother until one day, he decided to place his mother, his own beloved mother in a hut at the back of his now lavish house, to be all but forgotten, to fend for herself. There she lived alone until one fateful day, Death came for the son. It was painful for him, very painful for he suffered but could not die. The news of the dying son reached the Prophet's (PBUH) ears. He came and at once he knew the cause of the son's suffering, the mother felt  hurt out of being left all alone in the small hut, forgotten by the son and forced to fend for her old self. Out of the hurt she prayed for God's justice and God's justice favours of the oppressed, mothers especially. Only after the Prophet (PBUH) persuaded the mother to forgive her son did the son passed away in peace.

The story, demonstrates the power our own mother have over the fate of us, the sons and daughters. The power to decide where we end up in, heaven or hell, in the palm of our own mother. But what if the roles the mother and the son in the story is reversed?
 
Against a mother's prayer, nothing in this world can win. But will God listen to the fervent prayers of a son wronged?


I am rambling again. Its Talentime. The hospital scene always made me emotional.