The morning sun woke up from her bed announcing the start of a new day. Umm Nidal was awake arranging the house and preparing breakfast for all her children Nidal, Aisha, and Jamal. The house was beautiful and quiet, its silence broken by the Holy Quran in the morning. Umm Nidal runs for an hour, as she approaches six thirty, she wakes her children with tenderness and softness so they can prepare themselves for school, and she begins to prepare herself to go out to work.
Nidal enters the kitchen and greets his mother peace be upon you oh mother, so the mother replies peace be upon you oh my son, come prepare yourself quickly so you are not late for your school. Then Jamal enters and says mother my friend invited me to a party at his house on the occasion of his academic excellence this year at four o’clock, so the mother replied this is good because I want to stay late at work, I will tell your father to take you there.
So Aisha said and I want to go with him oh mother because Safi’s daughters will also go, so the mother said to her no, so Aisha said why did you allow my brother? The mother said because your brother has become big. The mother drives her car quickly until she reaches her workplace. There are many tasks that she must deliver before half the duty time. She looks at the watch and finds it approaching one thirty, it is the time of the children’s return from school, so the mother calls her husband if he can return them to the house. He tells her that he is under pressure at work and cannot leave for an hour.
She calls her brother’s wife quickly asking her to return them to the house with her children until she returns from work. Nidal and Aisha return to their uncle’s house and were very happy, for they love to play with their uncle’s children. After lunch they sat in front of the computer screen, and suddenly their cousin Ahmed tells them in a low voice to write on the search board the words of a film that his friend at school told him about, and Ahmed’s mother was washing dishes in the kitchen and was satisfied with the calmness that prevailed in the living room.
The children watched the content of the short film and short questions circulated in their small minds. Umm Nidal came to return her children to the house after a hard and long day of work, and she started preparing lunch for her husband. After her son returned from his friend’s party carrying a gift, which was a CD of the Holy Quran and some Islamic chants, he and his brothers listened to it in overwhelming happiness.
As for the mother, fatigue was evident on her face, and she began to prepare herself for a new round of arrangement, organization, and other household matters. On the next day she would receive guests after duty. On the next day, Aisha told her mother that she would visit her classmates, so her mother agreed in a hurry and did not ask what the girl was and who her people were. Aisha went to her classmate’s house to study for the exam subject, so Aisha was late, and the mother did not have her classmate’s phone number. After the guests left the house, her busyness increased, and after moments of thinking, a car stopped in front of the house, and she looked from the window and found her daughter.
The mother was annoyed by this situation and decided in herself to punish her daughter for this delay, but who is to blame here? She consulted her husband about the matter, so the father gathered the family, and the mother increased the severity of what befell the children from distress, and the father said with wisdom keep your eye on your house…