At Their Feet Piety Towards PARENTS

Pages: 96Cover Type: PaperbackAuthor: Ibn al-JawziPublisher: Dar as-Sunnah PublishersAllah the Most High Said: "And your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him. And that you be dutiful to your parents…" [17:23]After Allah Almighty, there is none who has realized a greater favor to any person than one's own parents. His mother bore him in extreme difficulty and went through great hardship and trouble while carrying him. Both parents performing their best in raising him, providing love and compassion and working hard to spend on him; spending sleepless nights tending to him while ignoring their own wants and desires.Islam has gone to great lengths in impressing piety towards parents and indicating reward and punishment associated to it. A person with basic common sense understands the rights of the one who renders favors to him; not recognizing such rights is from the most deprived qualities one can assume. A person who is dutiful and good to his parents should know that no matte