It Is Also Possible
The attribute of forgiveness is reflected in a mother. Just as a mother forgives her child, God Almighty can forgive and reward man. However, this reward is only reserved for those who accord their all to God and become His servants.
The son beat his mother with his tiny hands. The mother picked up the son and embraced him. What is the meaning of such conduct? It means that the act of beating was sublimated into an act of love by the mother. She put the wrong action into the ‘good action slot’. She converted a deed worthy of punishment into one worthy of adoration. An incident such as this in every house is one example of how the qualities of the Creator, e.g., forgiveness, are reflected in a mother’s behaviour. It is one of the signs of the Almighty, by which He shows how he has distributed His blessings in this world. She did not generate the quality of love in herself; it came from God. So then, if God is the Provider of these qualities, they will be found in perfect form at their source.
Man does not know the hidden reality. That is why he is faced with having to bear many losses in this earthly life. His willpower is weak, the superficial feelings overpower him, and he commits grave errors. He has limited resources at his disposal, and he repeatedly succumbs to them, unable to overpower external forces. Such adverse circumstances have made man’s life a tragedy in this world.
All the human beings in this world suffer from time to time from this feeling that they are failures. They are very conscious that they have failed to achieve what they wanted. Therefore, almost everyone is disappointed, even though he may have a well-fed body and a smiling countenance.
Can this tragedy be turned into a comedy? Is it possible that we may reach our destination in life where our failures are turned into successes, our faults put into the ‘reward’s slot’? As we find it reflected in the mother’s heart, the divine attribute provides a positive answer to this question. God can make that event a reality on a far grander scale for His servants than that shown by a mother for her child. Through the mother’s attitude to the child, the Almighty wishes to show that He can give even this reward to the seeker, the reward of converting a No into a Yes. However, this reward is only reserved for those who accord the status of the “mother” to God and become His “son”. The attribute of forgiveness is reflected in a mother. Just as a mother forgives her child, God Almighty can forgive and reward man. However, this reward is only reserved for those who accord their all to God and become His servants.
