I was recently asked, "How was your parents' marriage?"
My response: "The best I have ever seen masha'Allah."
Today marks my parents' 25th wedding anniversary - a marriage based on true love, sincerity, loyalty, and respect. I am one of the luckiest people in the world to be raised by parents who taught me what it means to give unconditional love to one another even if you are polar opposites apart -- my mother is very outspoken and social like me whereas my father's the complete opposite: very private, reserved and often at times, quiet. They taught me the true meaning of "commitment" and showed me what it takes to make a marriage successful despite the multiple storms that try to knock it down.
Thank you Pappa, for being the best father and husband in the world. Thank you for battling for my mother and for marrying her despite all the resistance you and Mamma faced before marriage. Thank you for looking at her with the same love in your eyes that you had for her when you first married her. Thank you for being a real man and not giving in to the expectations of our society that expects men to be authoritative and hard especially towards their womenfolk.
Thank you for being a friend, the only friend who understood me completely especially during these past few months when no one but you could feel my pain. Thank you for all those intimate conversations that are not typical father-daughter conversations and thank you for all your duas. Thank you for believing in me and for supporting me through my dreams when the whole world, including myself doubted me. Thank you for being the first love of my life. I am sure you're always going to be the first and the last!
Thank you Mamma, for taking all those blows and bruises for my father, for fighting for him before and after marriage especially as a woman in our society. Thank you for raising a strong daughter and fighter like yourself. Thank you for making all those sacrifices you have made for us and our father. Thank you for running the home so well as a single mother whose husband and oldest daughter left the country when real challenges entered our family life. Thank you for loving me and checking on me every single day of my life. Thank you for being one of my best friends with whom I can share anything in life - even details that I would hesitate to share with my closest friends.
Thank you, both of you, for being an inspiration to all of us. Bhai, Farah, Hamza and I are indeed the luckiest to have you both as our parents. May Allah swt reunite us as a family with aafiyah in this world and the hereafter. Ameen.
Happy wedding anniversary! I love you!
Today marks my parents' 25th wedding anniversary - a marriage based on true love, sincerity, loyalty, and respect. I am one of the luckiest people in the world to be raised by parents who taught me what it means to give unconditional love to one another even if you are polar opposites apart -- my mother is very outspoken and social like me whereas my father's the complete opposite: very private, reserved and often at times, quiet. They taught me the true meaning of "commitment" and showed me what it takes to make a marriage successful despite the multiple storms that try to knock it down.
Thank you Pappa, for being the best father and husband in the world. Thank you for battling for my mother and for marrying her despite all the resistance you and Mamma faced before marriage. Thank you for looking at her with the same love in your eyes that you had for her when you first married her. Thank you for being a real man and not giving in to the expectations of our society that expects men to be authoritative and hard especially towards their womenfolk.
Thank you for being a friend, the only friend who understood me completely especially during these past few months when no one but you could feel my pain. Thank you for all those intimate conversations that are not typical father-daughter conversations and thank you for all your duas. Thank you for believing in me and for supporting me through my dreams when the whole world, including myself doubted me. Thank you for being the first love of my life. I am sure you're always going to be the first and the last!
Thank you Mamma, for taking all those blows and bruises for my father, for fighting for him before and after marriage especially as a woman in our society. Thank you for raising a strong daughter and fighter like yourself. Thank you for making all those sacrifices you have made for us and our father. Thank you for running the home so well as a single mother whose husband and oldest daughter left the country when real challenges entered our family life. Thank you for loving me and checking on me every single day of my life. Thank you for being one of my best friends with whom I can share anything in life - even details that I would hesitate to share with my closest friends.
Thank you, both of you, for being an inspiration to all of us. Bhai, Farah, Hamza and I are indeed the luckiest to have you both as our parents. May Allah swt reunite us as a family with aafiyah in this world and the hereafter. Ameen.
Happy wedding anniversary! I love you!
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