In these tough times, my go-to story of Hope: Story of Musa when he was born.

Firaon decreed that every male child be killed. His army used to keep all pregnant women under surveillance. The girl child was let off but male children were killed. So, if you were pregnant, they’ll keep checking on you periodically. In the end, you’ve to either show a female child or give up the male child for sacrifice. In case, you could do neither, it meant you’ve hid the child and in that case, you’d be killed.

Finally, Hazrat Musa is born. His family doesn’t want to lose him as a sacrifice and his mother cannot give up the child- she’s a mother, how could she? His sister comes up with a plan, she puts him in the basket to be dropped into the river.

But again, what sort of a mother would let go of her child? As Allah mentions in the Quran, He emptied her heart- of worries and attachments- just for that moment and she gave up her child to be thrown into the river!

As a story, it feels nice. But she’s no Prophet, she has no assurance from God like Hajira, she is just any other mother yet she found it plausible to throw her child into a river than give him up. Only and only because River meant hope.

She held onto the last shred of hope. A baby being thrown into the longest river of the world felt sensible instead of giving him up. To cling onto the hope, the very last shreds of it is sensible than giving up altogether.

We often give up on ourselves, we feel that the army of Firaon might be here any moment and will get us. We feel that the end is near and someone tells us to do something as absurd as throwing a baby into the river.

Yes, that’s absurd but that’s also the final hope. If this story teaches us anything, it’s to never give up even if the end is imminent. Because, even though you find yourself in the turbulence of Nile, it’s taking you to the only safe haven there is.

So, don’t fret the upheavals of the river they will do you no harm. They’re just lifting you up for the world to see. You might even flourish under the shade of the same tree that housed your predators. Allah knows and wills what he wants.

Sabr.

InShaAllah khair. :)

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