Grand Imam of Al-Azhar to children: “Be as good to your mothers as they were to you”
The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Prof. Ahmed El-Tayeb, celebrated Mother’s Day through a post on his official Facebook and Twitter accounts, sending a message to the children: “Be as good to your mothers as they were to you.” The Grand Imam’s tweet reads as follows, “A mother is the embodiment of the highest meanings of love, giving, sacrifice and loyalty, and she is the safe haven for the distressed (children) and the comfort for panicking. Our Lord raised her status, with Paradise lying just beneath her feet. Besides, the Prophet (pbuh) kept prioritizing filial duty to her over the father’s, repeating in the Hadith, ‘Your mother (is most entitled to filial duty), then your mother, then your mother, and then your father.’ So be as good to your mothers as they were to you.”