his children, but after getting married his children and their wives make his life terrible.

Parents nourish their child with great care and elegance, tearfully beg him from Allah Almighty, spend their life savings on his treatment, make Du’as for him at the shrines of blessed Islamic saints, request pious people to make Du’as for him, but unfortunately one day the same child displeases them, hurts their feelings and kicks them out of their home or leaves them in the Old House in order to please his wife.

In the Old House the memories of the moments which they [parents] have spent with their children torment them and make them weep a lot. Everyday parents hope: Today my child who I have nourished with great hardship and difficulty, for whom I sacrificed my good night’s sleep when he was undergoing treatment for his illness will come to take me. Today my son whose attractive voice would make my tiredness of the entire day go away will come to take me; my son will hug me, will take me home, but unfortunately, days and nights continue to pass; no one comes and nor do they receive any phone calls. اَلْاَمَانْ وَالْحَفِیْظ

It is a well-known saying, ‘As you sow so shall you reap’! Today if we treat our father badly, it is possible that tomorrow our children will also give us the same treatment.

As you sow so shall you reap

It is stated in a blessed Hadees: کَمَا تَدِیْنُ تُدَانُ i.e. As you sow so shall you reap. (Musannaf Abdur-ur-Razzaq, vol. 10, pp. 189, Hadees 20430)

Commenting on this blessed Hadees ‘Allamah Abdul Rauf Manaawi رَحْمَةُ اللهِ عَلَيْه has written: i.e. The way you do, in the same way you will be given its return; whatever you do to someone, the same will happen to you. (At-Tayseer Bi-Sharh-ul-Jami’-us-Sagheer, vol. 2, pp. 222)

A’la Hadrat, Imam-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat Maulana Shah Imam Ahmad Raza Khanرَحْمَةُ اللهِ عَلَيْه has mentioned: When the unwise, the mischievous and the silly gain power and energy, they use it on their old father and disobey him. Soon they