*A False Notion and a Shattered Family*
To destroy a person's home, sometimes a bomb, a weapon, or an enemy is not needed; sometimes a false notion, a baseless suspicion, or an ignorant sense of honor is enough to obliterate an entire family. Sometimes, it is enough for someone to be mistaken for an innocent person at the wrong time and in the wrong place.
A story that has no reality, but this behavior is a practice in society. The story begins on an ordinary day when a stranger throws an envelope at the door of a house. The daughter-in-law of the house opens the door, picks up the envelope, and opens it, surprised to find a letter inside that has neither her name nor her address. The writing is full of emotions and nonsense. The daughter-in-law looks, understands, and immediately says, "This letter has come by mistake; it is not mine."
Saying this, she puts the letter aside. Her heart was at peace, her conscience was clear because that was the truth. She was innocent; it was not her fault, and no chaste woman would even suspect this. I am not convinced that such women do not exist; they do exist in our society, but they are very unknown. But I have to explain my headline, nothing else, and I hope sensible people will try to understand.
What happens next is that some mothers-in-law are a disgrace to the name of mother-in-law. Now, the misfortune of this respectable woman was that the letter had first caught the mother-in-law's eye, the same mother-in-law who had old grudges in her heart for the daughter-in-law, whose tongue always had poison, and whose eyes always held suspicion, for whom no explanation from the daughter-in-law was credible. In a moment, a whole story was prepared in her mind: "This daughter-in-law is looking for an opportunity; she is corresponding; she is having an affair; she is hollowing out the honor of our house."
The malice filled in her heart was eager to be passed on to the husband's ear through her tongue.
When the husband came home, the mother-in-law took him aside and narrated the whole drama with great confidence, with artificial tears in her eyes, self-made honor in her tone, and the letter in her hand. "Look at your wife's deeds; she will not let us live in society; she is playing with our honor and wants to humiliate us in society. I cannot tolerate her actions. I don't even know what kind of honor you have. What is your wife up to?" As much as possible, his ears were filled, and he was made uncontrollable.
The husband did not give a moment's respite to the truth, did not ask a question, did not listen to an explanation, did not look at the address on the letter, did not even think that in the entire life of the woman he had spent many years with, this act had never come to light. Anger became blind, honor became mad, and reason was completely paralyzed. At that moment, he called his wife.
He did not listen to even one word of hers.
Just in the intoxication of ignorant honor, he tied her with a rope and beat her until she was covered in blood. Her screams echoed from every corner of the house but were not heard because when a person considers shamelessness as honor, then even the voice of truth seems like a sin to him. She kept getting beaten and kept saying, "For God's sake, this is not my fault; this is not my letter; I have nothing to do with it," but he had crossed all levels of ignorance, and his human honor had disappeared, and he had gone mad in the intoxication of words.
That shameless mother-in-law kept watching, and that wife kept begging for mercy. After the oppression, that shameless mother-in-law handed the letter to the husband.
The husband read it, loving sentences, sweet truths, absurd phrases, crazy actions, and kept getting angrier and kept cursing himself. She, suffering from pain, kept denying, as if it was her writing. *How difficult it is to confess to a sin that we have not committed* is the other side of the coin.
After that, to solidify the enmity, the mother-in-law also called the girl's brother and mother, "Come and take your immoral daughter away; she has destroyed the honor of our house. We caught her writing letters and talking nonsense." On the other hand, the girl was lying on the bed, covered in wounds. On the other hand, the brother came, burning in the name of honor. He did not see his sister's condition, did not see the blood, did not see the sobs, only saw the suspicions that the mother-in-law and husband had filled in his mind. He dragged his sister down, raining slaps, kicks, and abuses.
The girl kept crying, joining her hands, saying, "I have nothing to do with this letter; it has come by mistake," but to prove her innocence, the sister decided to swear on the Quran to her brother. The Holy Quran was brought. The girl performed ablution and, with a trembling voice, placed her hand on the Quran and said,
*By God, I am innocent*
But when a false notion settles on someone's mind, even oaths on the Quran become useless. The mother-in-law poured oil on the fire and said, "We do not trust such a woman. A wife who can betray her husband can also lie by placing her hand on the Quran."
This one thing got stuck in the brother's mind like a nail. He did not pause for a minute, took out a pistol, and shot four bullets into his own sister's head.
She sobbed, looked at her children, and departed from the world, saying, "There will surely be a day of justice"😭
Six innocent children saw their mother being beaten in front of their eyes
First by the father's hands, then by the maternal uncle's hands, they kept crying, kept begging
They kept shouting, "Don't kill Mom, don't kill Mom," but in the name of honor, reason had died, hearts had become stone, and self-respect had been sold without knowing the reality of absurd words, and when people do not fear Allah, then they fall into every temptation of Satan. For God's sake, Islam has set some conditions and laws to prove every crime, and who are you to decide life and death on just one uncommitted crime.
When the police took out the record of the letter, the whole truth was revealed to the world. The letter had come to the wrong address; the letter was for someone else; the letter was not for that innocent woman.
The killer brother committed suicide in jail after hearing the truth. The husband, mother-in-law, and mother were all arrested and shed tears over their crime, but what was to be done now? The whole family had been ruined, lives had become restless, and the whole family had been obliterated.
Brother, for God's sake, before declaring someone guilty, investigate the crime as much as possible and make a decision in the right direction, otherwise remember that a very big court is also to be held in the court of Allah, where milk will be separated from water, and there your way of defense will also be suspended.
May Allah Almighty grant us the ability to think and understand. Ameen Ya Rabb Al-Alameen, by the grace of the Holy Prophet ﷺ.
*✍️Mutalim Al-Jamia Al-Ashrafia✍️*