A little boy asked his mother, “Why are you crying?”

“Because I need to,” she said.

“I don’t understand, “ he said.

His mum just hugged him and said, “And you never will”.

Later the little boy asked his father, “Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?”

“All women cry for no reason,” his dad answered carelessly.

The little boy, still wondering why women cry, finally asked the old wise sheikh. “He surely knows the answer,” he thought. “O sheikh! Why do women cry so easily?”

The sheikh answered: “When Allah (swt) made the women she had to be made so special. He made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world, yet gentle enough to give comfort.

He gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that comes from her children.

He gave her hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives up, and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue without complaining.

He gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all circumstances, even when her child hurts her very badly.

He gave her the strength to carry her husband through his faults and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart.

And lastly, He gave her a tear. This is hers and only hers exclusively to use whenever she needs it. She needs no reason, no explanation, it’s hers.

You see my son; the beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the beauty of her face, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart- the place where love resides”.

The little boy got the answer and never asked the question again.