How can a mother be so indifferent?

- It is stated in the Quran that the mother will escape from the child, the child will escape from the mother, and no one will help anyone on the Day of Judgment.
- It is stated that everyone will be busy with their own problems.
- How can a mother who can throw herself into fire and sacrifice herself for her child in the world be like that in the hereafter?
- How can she be so insensitive and indifferent?

Dear Brother / Sister,

How many mothers in the world have thrown or can throw themselves into the fire for their children? 

However, it will be useful to mention a few points:

a) Allah has placed in the hearts of mothers a wonderful compassion to protect their children. This also applies to animals. This feeling given to protect the child can have no function in the Hereafter because it is against Allah's command to protect a child who deserves Hell there. That is why such a sacrifice can never be made there.

b) The punishment in the world and the one in the hereafter cannot be compared. Therefore, the result of a mother's sacrifice for her child in the world is death. Moreover, she has a belief that this sacrifice will be rewarded as Paradise.

Even those who do not believe can sacrifice their lives for their children's lives in a mood of enthusiasm and gush with the overflowing of the compassion and mercy placed in their nature by Allah.  

Besides, the number of such incidents in the world would be very low

However, there are also monstrous mothers who murder their children with their own hands. The examples of monstrous mothers are many times greater than self-sacrificing mothers.

c) In the hereafter, there will be no mood of enthusiasm and gush or sacrificing lives for others. On the contrary, losing Paradise, which is a place of eternal bliss, and entering Hell, which is a place of unprecedented torture, are in question. No one can make such a sacrifice.

d) To misinterpret the words of the Quran, which has been proved to be a miracle in forty ways, which has challenged everybody to produce something similar to it and will challenge them up to the Day of Judgment due to some delusions and imaginations is something that dates back to the Middle Age.  

e) In addition to all these explanations, it should be noted that there is no specific phrase stating that “mothers will escape from their children” as it is claimed in the question.

The verses in question are as follows:

“That Day shall a man flee from his own brother, And from his mother and his father, And from his wife and his children. Each one of them, that Day, will have enough concern (of his own) to make him indifferent to the others.” (Abasa, 80/34-37)

May Allah bestow foresight upon all of us!

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