Batu Menangis

Once upon a time, there lived a mother and her daughter in a small village, in
Borneo island. The daughter was so beautiful, but she had a very bad behavior.
She never helped her mother to work.

She just spent her time in front of the mirror to beautify herself and to admire
her beauty. While her mother had to work to fulfill their daily needs. She was also
a spoiled girl. She always asked everything to her mother. if her mother didn’t
fulfill her want, she would cry. This made her mother so sad, but somehow she
still loved her daughter. So she always tried to fulfill what her daughter wanted.

One day, the girl forced her mother to buy a new gown for her. At first, her
mother refused her request. She told her daughter that she didn’t have enough
money. But her daughter threatened her mother, then she fulfilled to but a new
gown.

Before going to the market together, her daughter reminded her mom,”Let’s go
shopping, but I don’t want to walk beside you. You had to walk behind me, I felt
embarrassed if people see me”. Even though her mother felt really sad, she
obeyed her daughter request, she did not want her daughter feel embarrassed.

The daughter dressed beautifully while her mother wore very simple dress. Even
though they were a mother and a daughter, they looked so different. Her mother
looked like her servant. In the middle of their way to market, a man greeted
them,”Hi cute girl, is she your mother?”. he asked. “How could you think that? Of
course she is not my mother, she is my servant”, the daughter replied. Her
mother was so sad to hear that.

She kept silent though her heart was crying aloud. Along the street everyone
passing kept asking the girl about her mother. And the girl always told them that
the old woman behind her was her servant.

The mother had stayed patiently along the street. And finally she could not bear
it to hear her daughter’s answer. she prayed to the God,”O Lord, punish my
ungrateful daughter, please!”, she prayed. Suddenly the girl’s legs turned to be a
stone immediately after the mother stopped praying. The change came slowly.
Knowing her legs turned to be a stone, the daughter screamed.”What’s happen
to my legs?”.

Then she realized that she had hurt her mother’s feeling. She cried and begged
for absolution to her mother.”Mommy, Forgive me please, mom”. She begged.
The daughter kept crying. But it was too late. The whole body eventually became
a stone. The mother actually felt so sad to see her daughter. But she could not do
anything to the God’s destiny. Even though she had become a stone completely,
people can still see her tears. That is the reason why it was called Batu Menangis.
 Cerita Legenda Batu Menangis

Pada suatu ketika, hiduplah seorang ibu dan putrinya di sebuah desa kecil, di
pulau Kalimantan. Putri itu begitu indah, tapi dia memiliki perilaku yang sangat
buruk. Dia tidak pernah membantu ibunya bekerja.

Dia hanya menghabiskan waktu di depan cermin untuk mempercantik dirinya dan
mengagumi kecantikannya. Sementara ibunya harus bekerja untuk memenuhi
kebutuhan sehari-hari. Dia juga seorang gadis manja. Dia selalu bertanya segala
sesuatu untuk ibunya. jika ibunya tidak memenuhi dia inginkan, dia akan
menangis. Hal ini membuat ibunya sangat sedih, tapi entah bagaimana dia masih
mencintai putrinya. Jadi dia selalu berusaha untuk memenuhi apa yang putrinya
inginkan.

Suatu hari, gadis itu dipaksa ibunya untuk membeli gaun baru untuknya. Pada
awalnya, ibunya menolak permintaannya. Dia mengatakan kepada putrinya
bahwa ia tidak punya cukup uang. Tapi putrinya mengancam ibunya, kemudian
dia dipenuhi untuk tetapi gaun baru.

Sebelum pergi ke pasar bersama-sama, putrinya mengingatkan ibunya, "Mari kita

pergi berbelanja, tapi saya tidak ingin berjalan di samping Anda. Anda harus
berjalan di belakang saya, saya merasa malu jika orang melihat saya ". Meskipun
ibunya merasa benar-benar sedih, ia menuruti permintaan putrinya, dia tidak
ingin putrinya merasa malu.

Putri berpakaian indah sementara ibunya mengenakan gaun yang sangat

sederhana. Meskipun mereka adalah ibu dan anak, mereka tampak begitu
berbeda. Ibunya tampak seperti budaknya. Di tengah jalan mereka ke pasar,
seorang pria menyapa mereka, "Hai gadis cantik, dia ibumu?". tanyanya.
"Bagaimana kau bisa berpikir begitu? Tentu saja dia bukan ibuku, dia hamba-Ku ",
putri menjawab. Ibunya sangat sedih mendengarnya.

Dia diam meskipun hatinya menangis keras. Sepanjang jalan orang yang lewat
terus bertanya gadis tentang ibunya. Dan gadis itu selalu mengatakan kepada
mereka bahwa wanita tua di belakangnya adalah hamba-nya.

Sang ibu telah tinggal sabar sepanjang jalan. Dan akhirnya dia tidak tahan
mendengar putrinya jawaban. ia berdoa kepada Allah, "Ya Tuhan, menghukum
anak tidak tahu berterima kasih saya, silahkan!", dia berdoa. Tiba-tiba kaki gadis
itu berubah menjadi batu setelah ibu berhenti berdoa. Perubahan datang
perlahan-lahan. Mengetahui kakinya berubah menjadi batu, putri berteriak. "Apa
yang terjadi pada kaki saya?".
Lalu ia menyadari bahwa ia telah menyakiti perasaan ibunya. Dia menangis dan
memohon pengampunan untuk ibunya. "Ibu, Maafkan aku mohon, ibu". Dia
memohon. Putri terus menangis. Tapi sudah terlambat. Seluruh tubuh akhirnya
menjadi batu. Sang ibu benar-benar merasa sangat sedih melihat putrinya. Tapi
dia tidak bisa melakukan apa pun untuk takdir Allah. Meskipun ia telah menjadi
batu benar-benar, orang masih bisa melihat air matanya. Itulah alasan mengapa
itu disebut Batu Menangis.