Back in the 1930s, H. M. Skeels studied mentally disabled orphans who were living in an institution but were subsequently adopted. After four years, their IQs diverged an amazing fifty points from those of the orphans who were not adopted. And the remarkable thing is that the kids who were adopted were not improved by tutoring and lecturing. The mothers who adopted them were also mentally disabled and living in a different institution. It was the mother’s love and attention that produced the IQ spike.
(The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David Brooks.)
Now read about motherhood, as experienced and seen through eyes of a genius and a polymath, Sir Zafrulla Khan.
Encylopaedia Britannica states about Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan:
“Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan was a Pakistani politician, diplomat, and international jurist, known particularly for his representation of Pakistan at the United Nations (UN).
The son of the leading attorney of his native city, Zafrulla Khan studied at Government College in Lahore and received his LL.B. from King’s College, London University, in 1914. He practiced law in Sialkot and Lahore, became a member of the Punjab Legislative Council in 1926, and was a delegate in 1930, 1931, and 1932 to the Round Table Conferences on Indian reforms in London. In 1931–32 he was president of the All-India Muslim League (later the Muslim League), and he sat on the British viceroy’s executive council as its Muslim member from 1935 to 1941. He led the Indian delegation to the League of Nations in 1939, and from 1941 to 1947 he served as a judge of the Federal Court of India.
Prior to the partition of India in 1947, Zafrulla Khan presented the Muslim League’s view of the future boundaries of Pakistan to Sir Cyril Radcliffe, the man designated to decide the boundaries between India and Pakistan. Upon the independence of Pakistan, Zafrulla Khan became the new country’s minister of foreign affairs and served concurrently as leader of Pakistan’s delegation to the UN (1947–54). From 1954 to 1961 he served as a member of the International Court of Justice at The Hague. He again represented Pakistan at the UN in 1961–64 and served as president of the UN General Assembly in 1962–63. Returning to the International Court of Justice in 1964, he served as the court’s president from 1970 to 1973.
He was knighted in 1935. He is the author of Islam: Its Meaning for Modern Man (1962) and wrote a translation of the Qur’an (1970).”
Read the book My Mother by Zafrulla:
Categories: Psychology, Women Rights
Any culture that does not honor motherhood properly by appropriate women rights cannot flourish, is self evident from the reading of this post.
So, every time we want to enforce a male chauvinistic idea, which sometimes comes to us in guise of our religiosity and spirituality, we should think of our mothers and our future generations!
This is not an invitation to blindly follow the West in presumed women rights but to ponder and reflect on these important issues.
A Spanish proverb rightly says: An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy
It was the mother’s love and attention that produced the IQ spike. How true this sentence is. Love and affection of real mother can further enlarge this spike. Really love of mother has no sustitute.