May You Be Rewarded with Goodness… A Prayer for a Mother Who Raised Her Child Well (Part One)

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May You Be Rewarded with Goodness… A Prayer for a Mother Who Raised Her Child Well (Part One)

Translated by: Reza Ervani bin Asmanu

This article, “May You Be Rewarded with Goodness… A Prayer for a Mother Who Raised Her Child Well,” is included in the Family Education Category

في ليلة من ليالي الصيف المقمرة .. عاد الفارس المجاهد بعد ثلاثين سنة من الجهاد .. وقد ترك زوجه العروس تحمل بين أحشائها جنينًا .

On one moonlit summer night, a warrior returned after thirty years of jihad. He had left behind his young bride while she was carrying a child in her womb.

تلفّت الفارس يمنًة ويسرًة محاولاً استعادة ذلك البيت الذي يضم زوجه ووليده ، الذين لا يعرف عنهما شيئًا .

The warrior looked to his right and left, trying to recognize the house where his wife and child lived, though he knew nothing of what had become of either of them.

لقد تغيّرت معالم مدينة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم عن ذي قبل ، وكَثُر فيها سواد الناس ، لا أحد يحفل به وهو في طريقه إلى داره ، بل لا أحد يهتم لعودته بعد طول غيبته ، ولكن هل يذكره أحد ؟!

The features of the City of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had changed from what he once knew, and its population had greatly increased. No one paid attention to him as he made his way toward his home. No one seemed to care that he had returned after such a long absence. But did anyone still remember him?

هل يتذكر أحد ذلك الفارس المجاهد الذي ما إن سمع نداء الجهاد حتى أسرع ملبيًا ، تاركًا زوجه الحامل ، والتي لا تزال عروسًا لم ينقضِ على عرسها غير أشهر معدودات .

Did anyone remember that warrior who, as soon as he heard the call to jihad, hurried to answer it, leaving behind his pregnant wife while she was still a newlywed, only a few months into their marriage?

ثلث قرن والفارس ينتقل مع جيوش المسلمين من فتح إلى فتح ، ومن نصر إلى نصر ، لا يكاد يهزه حنين إلى زوجه وولده ذكرًا كان أم أنثى .

For nearly a third of a century, the warrior had moved with the Muslim armies from one conquest to another and from one victory to the next, scarcely allowing his longing for his wife and child — whether the child was a boy or a girl — to shake his resolve.

لقد كان انتظار الزوجة له حتى انقطع في عودته الرجاء ، والناس مختلفون في مصيره ، ومع طول المدة و انقطاع الأخبار ، ترجَّح في نفس الزوجة والجميع استشهاد الفارس المجاهد ،

His wife had continued waiting for him until all hope of his return had faded. People differed over what had happened to him, but as the years passed and all news ceased, his wife and those around her increasingly believed that the warrior had been martyred.

مضى الفارس إلى حيث تعَّرف على موضع داره ، ألجمته الدهشة فلم يطرق بابها ، ومن ذا يرده عن داره ؟!

The warrior continued until he recognized the place where his house stood. Astonishment overwhelmed him, and he did not even knock at the door. After all, who could prevent him from entering his own home?

دخل الفارس الدار ، فإذا برجل في الثلاثين من عمره ينقض عليه انقضاض الأسد على فريسته ،

He entered the house, only to find a man around thirty years old suddenly charging at him like a lion pouncing upon its prey.

إذ كيف لهذا الشيخ بسيفه ورمحه أن يلج الدار معتديًا على من فيها من محارم ، احتدم الأمر بين الرجلين ، يدفع الشاب الشيخ ذائدًا عن حرماته المستحلة ، والشيخ يقسم أن الدار داره ،

How could this elderly man, carrying a sword and spear, simply enter the house and violate the sanctity of those within it? The confrontation between the two intensified. The young man pushed the older man away, defending the honor of his household, while the elder swore that the house was his own.

يرتفع صوت الرجلين فيفزع الجيران محيطين بالشيخ إحاطة السوار بالمعصم ، مدافعين عن جارهم الشاب ، والشيخ يحاول أن يذكرهم بنفسه ولا أحد يعرفه ، أو يصدّقه ،

Their voices rose until the neighbors rushed out and surrounded the elderly man as tightly as a bracelet encircles a wrist, defending their young neighbor. The old man tried to remind them who he was, but no one recognized him or believed him.

يصل الضجيج إلى حيث الأم النائمة ، تستيقظ على جلبة بين الرجال ، تنظر من أعلى البيت ، يا لهول ما رأت .

The commotion reached the mother while she was asleep. She awoke to the uproar of the men and looked down from the upper part of the house. What she saw left her stunned.

لم تكد تصدق عينيها ، أعادت النظر مرة ثانية لعلها تستوثق مما رأت ، إنه فّروخ زوجها الفارس المجاهد بشحمه ولحمه منذ وقعت عيناها عليه ، آخر مرة منذ ثلاثين عامًا ،

She could hardly believe her eyes. She looked again to make certain of what she was seeing. It was Farukh — her husband, the warrior — standing there in flesh and blood, the very man she had last seen thirty years earlier.

لقد تذكرت على الفور يوم ودَّعها موصيًا إيّاها خيرًا ، مذكِّرًا إيّاها أنه قد خلَّف لها ثلاثين ألف دينار هي غنائمه من جهاده قبل أن ينال حريته من قائده الصحابي الجليل الربيع ابن زياد الحارثي ،

At once she remembered the day he had bid her farewell, advising her to take good care of herself and reminding her that he had left thirty thousand dinars with her — wealth he had gained from his jihad before receiving his freedom from his commander, the noble Companion ar-Rabi’ ibn Ziyad al-Harithi.

To be continued in the next part, in sha Allah

Source: IslamWeb