The Holy Quran and Sunnah have laid great emphasis on meting out the treatment to the parents. Serving the parents well has been declared as a highly virtuous act and a great asset on this world as well in the Hereafter, Our parents deserve our greatest regard obedience and service after Allah and His Messenger.
Almighty Allah has decreed: "Your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Allah, and that you be kind to parents."
Hadrat Abdullah Ibn Masud (Allah be pleased with him) states:
" I submitted to the Messenger of Allah ( peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) as to which act Allah likes best."
The Messenger of Allah ( peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:
" The prayer offered in time."
Hadrat Abdullah Ibn Masud (Allah be pleased with him) submitted:
" Whats it that Allah likes next best?"
The Messenger of Allah ( peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:
" Good treatment of your mother and father."
Hadrat Abdullah Ibn Masud (Allah be pleased with him) again submitted:
The Messenger of Allah ( peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:
" Jihad in the way of Allah." (Bukhari, Muslim)
Hadrat Abdullah Ibn Masud (Allah be pleased with him) reports:
" One day a person come to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) and submitted:
" By giving my hand into your hand I swear allegiance for performing Hijrat and Jihad and I beseech reward from Allah in return for this."
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) enquired:
" Is one of your parents alive."
He submitted:
" Yes, praise be to Allah, both my father and mother are alive."
Thereupon, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) observed:
" Do you really want to get a reward from Allah for performing Hijrat and Jihad?"
the man submitted:
" Yes, indeed I beseech reward from Allah in return for these acts."
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) observed:
" Go then. Attend to your parents and serve them well." (Muslim)
Hadrat Abu Umama (Allah be pleased with him) reports:
"A man enquired from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him):
"O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him)! What are the rights of parents over their children?"
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) said:
" Your parents are your Paradise and they are your Hell." (Ibn Majah)
Hadrat Abu Saeed khudri (Allah be pleased with him) reports that a person visited the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) from Yemen.
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) enquired from him:
" Do you have any relatives at Yemen?"
He submitted:
"Yes, my father and mother are there."
Thereupon, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) asked:
" Did they give you permission to depart?"
He submitted:
"No, I didnt seek their permission."
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) observed:
" Go back and seek permission of your parents. Come back and join Jihad in case they agree, otherwise serve them." (Abu Dawud)
Your wealth and riches are the property of your parents and hence spend on them with an open hand.
They Holy Quran says: " They ask you concerning what they should expend. Say: whatsoever you expend of wealth (let it be) for the parents.." (Al-baqrah -215)
The Holy Quran says: " We have enjoined one man kindness to his parents: In pain did his mother hear him, and in pain did she give him birth. They carrying of the (child) to his weaning is (a period of) thirty month." (Al-Ahqaf - 15)
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) has emphasised this fact on a number of occasions.
Hadrat Abu Hurairah ( Allah be pleased with him) reports:
" A man visited the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) and submitted:
" O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him)! Who deserves the best treatment from me --- my father or mother?"
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) observed:
" Your mother."
He again submitted:
" And next?"
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) observed:
" Your mother."
Third time also he received the same reply.
When the man repeated his question for the fourth time, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) observed:
" Your father." (Al- Adabul Mufrad)
Hadarat Jahma (Allah be pleased with him) visited the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) and submitted:
" O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) I have come to seek your guidance for joining the Jihad."
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) interrogated:
" Is your mother alive?"
Jahma ( Allah be pleased with him) submitted:
" Yes, she is alive."
Thereupon the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) said:
" Go back to her then and serve her, for Paradise lies under her feet." (Ibn Majah, Nasa'i)
Hadrat Awais ( May Allah show His mercy) was a contemporary of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) but he never got an opportunity to call on the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him). In spite of the burning desire in him to visit the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) had forbidden him to come to him. He could not even perform Hajj till his mother was alive. (Ibn Majah)
Foster mother also deserves respect and devotion.
Hadarat Abu Tufail ( Allah be pleased with him) reports:
" I once was the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) distributing meat at a place called Jarana.
Meanwhile a lady appeared on the scene. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) showed her respect and spread out his sheet for her to sit on. I enquired from the people.
" Who is this lady?"
The people told me:
" This lady is the foster mother (Halima) of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him)." (Abu Dawud)
Hadrat Abu Hurairah ( Allah be pleased with him) reports that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) observed:
" Death deprives a person of the opportunity to perform anything more, yet three things continue to be of benefit to him even after death --- a charitable act which continues benefiting people; knowledge that keeps spreading; and pious offsprings who continue to offer prayers and invoke mercy of Allah upon him." (Abu Dawud)
It is incumbent upon the offsprings to fulfill the contracts, promises and will made by their dead parents. Their parents might have taken a vow; they might have owed a debt to somebody but failed to repay before death; they might have made a will before their death. Thus their offsprings owe a responsibility to fulfill all such demands after their death.
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