Salam Alaikum,
My father is a very difficult man. He is the definition of, and I swear I only say this because its accurate, a man child. He is neurotic, theatrical, easily frustrated, quick to anger and rather unprofessional, he is very hard to take seriously as a man. He drives cab in nyc and has been doing so for over 23 years. His head isn't always in the right place.
My father was becoming lazy; not going to work properly and his income was shrinking. We are not a rich family. My mother confronted him about not going to work regularly because he was getting comfortable with the income SHE was pulling in from her job (she's a 50 y old woman lifting clothes and boxes in a dept. store, not good for her body). She came home from work and started to confront him about it. The argument got very heated. The blame was largely on him.
He then, in his usual meaningless theatrical soliloquies, said my mother was being so vile and her behavior can only be explained if she was probably having an affair and her lover was telling her to disrespect her husband. The blood rushed to my head when he said this; my mother prays all 5, reads Quran daily and wears hijab. I stepped in between them and told him it is a terrible sin to falsely accuse a believing woman of adultery, and warned him if he said anything of the sort again I would hurt him badly.
He then said I was a terrible son and that he would call the police if this happened.
Am I in the wrong? Would it not have been worse to stand by and watch someone insult my mother like that? I reflected on what I said to him and felt heavy in the heart. May Allah forgive me.
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