Mom: A universal language

(1) O people, be conscious of your Lord. The quaking of the Hour is a tremendous thing.

(2) On the Day when you will see it: every nursing mother will pay no attention to her infant, and every pregnant woman will abort her load, and you will see the people drunk, even though they are not drunk, but the punishment of God is severe.

يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ اتَّقُوا رَبَّكُمْ إِنَّ زَلْزَلَةَ السَّاعَةِ شَيْءٌ عَظِيمٌ

يَوْمَ تَرَوْنَهَا تَذْهَلُ كُلُّ مُرْضِعَةٍ عَمَّا أَرْضَعَتْ وَتَضَعُ كُلُّ ذَاتِ حَمْلٍ حَمْلَهَا وَتَرَى النَّاسَ سُكَارَىٰ وَمَا هُم بِسُكَارَىٰ وَلَٰكِنَّ عَذَابَ اللَّهِ شَدِيدٌ

You know what amazes me about these first two verses of Surah Alhajj? The fact that Allah is talking about the severity and the craziness of the day of judgement and in order for us to grasp how crazy that day will be He uses no other scenario than the scenario of a nursing mother leaving her baby and of a pregnant woman not caring for what she is carrying inside. To show us what that day will look like or just to give us even a glimpse, Allah uses the scene of that mom and that baby. Imagine all the different scenarios that could have been used here. What does that say about the immense amount of love, care and mercy a mom has for her child? To focus all our attention to these two scenes, what does that say to a woman's unwavering compassion to her child?! In order for us to even slightly understand what that day will be like, we are forced to think of a nursing mom neglecting her baby. The immense love moms have is a universal fact and how appropriate that Allah proves that in these 2 verses. May Allah help us on that day and may we be from those who enter Paradise with the prophets and the righteous. Ameen.