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“You could have been given wealth or a Sultanate if you had wished. But yours was the most sacred of all desires. Go and you will be rewarded with the Sultanate of hearts!”

Under Soltan Sanjar’s patronage, Enweri the Poet became the most famous poet of all Seljuk Türkmens, Arabs and Persians. He is deemed to be one of the three poets who followed the way of the Prophet.

There is a myriad of anecdotes and stories about mothers. Man can understand that the most miraculous thing in the world is the mother, although he does not necessarily understand everything. He elevates the status of the mother with wise sayings.

Once there was a couple in love. The girl wished to learn how much her beloved loved her:

“Tear apart your mother’s chest and bring her heart to me, if you really love me,” she said.

The girl’s beloved was mad about the girl and he tore apart his mother’s chest and took the bloody heart, which was still beating, in his hands. He ran to the girl’s house. A stone on the way tripped him and he fell down. At that moment his mother’s heart in his hands gained the power to speak and said:

“O my dear, you haven’t hurt yourself, have you?”

This is a mother. No matter what happens, she feels and lives for her child with such love, compassion, attachment and dedication that it can never ever be given up. After a long and painful delivery, between life and death, every mother gives birth to her child in difficulty.

Once, a mother was dying during delivery. The physicians resuscitated the baby and the baby uttered a very loud cry. By


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