Widow Evelyn Axon is a psychic, or so she says. She lives with her adult but mentally impaired daughter Muriel in their big old house. She accepts they must obey the ghost that exists there, who leaves notes in rooms with instructions that often make Evelyn very uncomfortable. Muriel has a secret life, and punishes her mother by making out she’s less capable than she is, and is now pregnant. Evelyn is baffled as to how she managed it. Muriel’s social worker Isabel is having an affair with married man Colin, whose sister lives next door to the Axons. How can they help the weird pair of neighbours, and how can they save themselves from their own miserable lives?

Every day is Mother’s Day in Islam - Islamic Reflections Every day is Mother’s Day in Islam - Islamic Reflections

Allah has commanded us to be good to our parents. Allah says in the Quran, “Worship Allah and associate nothing with Him and be good to parents.” (Surah Nisa 4:36)Hilary Mantel’s interests, apart from the Tudors, include ghosts and the haunted. She also used to be a social worker. This mix is brought together in a weird semi-autobiographical plot involving four characters and their reactions to a haunted house, and a haunted existence. What makes this book so enjoyable is the way Mantel is sure to explain away every haunting with a reasonable explanation, but then will have another character experience the same ghost, hindering these reasons with another inexplicable side. Well, isn’t it quite obvious that it’s because it is the mother who bore you in her womb for nine long months! The one who spent sleepless nights just to feed and keep you warm. The one who does so many sacrifices on your behalf. Well, the outcome is very nasty indeed, but in this universe, it seems like the only answer, and sort of fair, and that’s a universe well-constructed.Many will be disappointed that Mantel doesn’t present a palatable cosy thriller as she does in her historical books. The truth is, this book is much more successful, technically speaking. The intense use of character and language to force the reader to see the characters’ points of view and accept them, even when they are terrible people, is powerful creative glue. Mother’s day is one of the widely celebrated days in many parts of the world. If we look at the origin of this celebration, it was started by Anna Jarvis in 1908 and became an official U.S. holiday in 1914. Most of us are aware of the hadith in which Rasoolullah ﷺ was asked as to who is most deserving of one’s good company and he replied, “Your Mother”, not once but thrice. But why did Allah’s messenger mention “your mother” three times and the father only once?

Every day is Mother’s Day - Isha Foundation Every day is Mother’s Day - Isha Foundation

If you don't appreciate this, if you have lost your consciousness completely, it is because you are too busy with some rubbish that is happening in your head. That is the only reason anybody can miss all this. Something that is happening in your head is important because you think too much of yourself.So we are grateful and we appreciate both – our biological mothers and mother earth. We are here because of this mother and that mother. Every day of your life, you should appreciate all the things and all the people who are contributing to make your life what it is today. Everything that is needed for your wellbeing is just being taken care of by the creator. Every moment, every step that you take, the planet is not giving in and breaking up. Every breath that you take, the air is not escaping from the atmosphere and denying you. All these millions of motherly or fatherly forces are working every moment of your life. You did not ask and you are not paying a bill for all these. Simply everything is provided. So for everything that nature and people around you are providing, shouldn’t you bow down to everything in absolute gratitude? Because you are incapable of conducting your life without all these forces co-operating with you, without being asked.