My son! My beloved! Are you hurt?

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“The Mother’s Heart” by Yaqob Al-Naseem

The Mother’s Heart is a heart-wrenching tale of motherly love. Its theme has cropped up in an eponymous novel by József Kiss and La Glu, a tale by Jean Richepin. It is probably an old Arabian tale.

Poem:

Once upon a time a man lured an ignorant boy, with his money to get his desire ..
He said : “bring me your mother’s heart boy, and you shall have jewels and dibs and pearls” ..
So he went and he thrust a dagger in her chest, got the heart out and went back from the way he came ..
But he was in such a rush that caused him to fall down, so the groveled heart trundled on the ground ..
At that point the mother’s heart called for him : “My son! My beloved! Are you hurt?”
This voice despite its tenderness, was the heaven’s torrential anger upon this boy ..
Than he retreated to the heart to wash it, with the water that his eyes poured out ..
Telling the heart : “O heart avenge me, and never forgive me that my crime was unforgivable” ..
Then he took his dagger to stick it in his own chest, and remain an example to those who can see ..
At that point the mother’s heart called for him: “O Son stop! and don’t strike my heart two times in a row ..