Treat Your Parents Well

The means Allah the Almighty has chosen for us to come into this world are our parents. Each of us is born to a father and a mother. After birth, the first people we see, and whose warmth of love we experience, are our parents. In this world, after Allah, the Lord of all worlds, and the Messenger (peace be upon him), the people who love us with the most genuine and selfless love are our parents. They are the ones who nurture and raise us. Every creature is born with its own “nature.” For example, a dog is born as a dog, a cat is born as a cat. However, humans are the only creatures who, though born in human form, must develop human qualities to truly become “human” in the moral sense. In this “process of becoming human,” the ones who accompany us for life are our parents. Just as parents have certain obligatory duties toward us, we too have obligatory duties toward them. However, under the influence of Western culture today, the equation of the relationship between us and our pare...