displeasure. Those distressing their parents meet doom even in the world. ‘Allāmaĥ Kamāluddīn Damīrī عَـلَيْهِ رَحْـمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ الۡـقَـوِی has narrated: One leg of Zamakhsharī (who was a renowned scholar of the Mu’tazilī sect) was amputated. When asked by people about it, he disclosed that it was the consequence of the curse of his mother.
Going into details, he said: In my childhood, I once caught a sparrow and tied a string to its leg. Coincidentally, it flew away from my hand and entered an opening of the wall but the string remained hanging out. Holding the string, I pulled it hard, and the sparrow came out of the opening writhing in severe pain. The leg of the poor sparrow was severed. Seeing this appalling scene, my mother became very sad and cursed me with these words, ‘May your leg get cut as you have cut the leg of this bird that cannot even express its suffering.’ The matter was then ignored. After some time, I travelled to ‘Bukhara’ to gain religious knowledge. On the way, I fell down from my conveyance receiving severe injury to my leg. Having reached Bukhara, I underwent lots of treatments but nothing alleviated the pain. Eventually, my leg was severed. (This way, the curse of the mother produced its effect).
(Ḥayāt-ul-Ḥaywān-ul-Kubrā, vol. 2, pp. 163)
Dear Islamic brothers! If your parents or anyone of them is displeased with you, then without any further delay, seek