parents do not even frown let alone asking them about these matters. Let’s obtain the Madani pearls of admonition and listen to an admonitory parable about ‘What problems do parents face due to giving no Madani upbringing to their children?’

Does son ever beat his father?

A person came to the Islamic scholar of Samarqand, Sayyiduna Abu Hafs     رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه and said: My son has beaten me. He رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه surprisingly asked: Does a son ever beat his father? That person replied: Yes! It has really happened. Sayyiduna Abu Hafs رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه asked the man: Have you given him Islamic education and taught manners? He gave a reply in negative. Sayyiduna Abu Hafs رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه then asked: Have you taught him the Holy Quran? He again gave a reply in negative. He رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه asked him: Then what does he do? That man replied: He works in farming. Sayyiduna Abu Hafs رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه said: Do you know why he has beaten you. He said, ‘No.’ Sayyiduna Abu Hafs رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه stated by taunting him for reformation: I think in the morning when he was going towards the fields sitting on his donkey, an ox would be in front of him and a dog behind. He does not know how to recite the Holy Quran, that’s why he would be singing something. In the meantime, you would have come in front of him; he would have considered you as an ox, so he might have hit something on your head. Be thankful that your head has not broken. (Tanbih-ul-Ghafileen, pp. 68)

Virtuous deeds equal to mountain didn’t benefit

On the Day of Judgement, the wife and children of a man will make a complaint in the court of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ. They will say, ‘O our Lord عَزَّوَجَلَّ! Make this person compensate for our unfulfilled right. He never taught us about religion, and he provided us with Haraam sustenance and we were unaware.’ The person would be beaten so severely for earning Haraam sustenance that his flesh would come off his bones.

Then he would be brought to the Balance [i.e. Meezan] where angels would bring his good deeds equivalent to mountains. Then, one of his family members would come and say, ‘I am short of good deeds’ and take some of