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)

Dear Islamic sisters! Let’s listen to two thought-provoking parables containing admonitory end of the one who treated his father badly and learn a lesson:

It is the return for this

Sayyiduna Saabit Bunaani رَحْمَةُ اللهِ عَلَيْه has said: At some place a person was beating his father. People reproached him: O the unfortunate person! What are you doing? Upon this the father said: Leave him because I would also beat my father here at the same place, therefore, my son is also beating me at the very same place. It is the return for the same; do not reprove him. (Tanbih-ul-Ghafileen, pp. 69)

Tomorrow the same will happen to me

It is said: Being sick of his old father a young man went to throw him into the river. The father said: O son! Throw me at a little more distance into deep water. The son said: Why should I not throw you here in the corner and why should I throw you there in the deep water? The father replied: Because here I threw my father. Having heard this, the son trembled with fear and thought that it would also happen to him one day. He took his father to his home and started looking after him. (Jaysi karni Waysi Bharni, pp. 90)

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب           صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

O devotees of Rasool! Usually it is the heartfelt desire of every father and mother that ‘my child should obey us, treat us well, be pious and abstinent, should have respect and good character in the society’, but usually the result