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The Grandeur and Excellence of a Father
Did he ever say: "Son, I really liked these shoes today, so I bought them for myself"? Never! Instead, the father was always heard saying, "I brought this for my son, for my daughter, for my wife."
Parents are extraordinary people. They live not for themselves, but for their children. When a child grows up and treats their parents disrespectfully and unkindly, speaking hurtful words, how much pain must that bring to their parents' hearts?
In Islamic literature, the level of respect a father deserves is mentioned to the extent that: "A son should be before his father like a servant before his master."[1] When a father gives an order to his son, the son should willingly obey. This is a father's right over his son and a matter of respect.
Today, the situation has reached a point where the son acts like the father, and the father acts like a servant. Now the father asks, "Son, I need a little money," and the son refuses, saying: "I don't have any money." The father says: "Son, come here, I have a small task," and the son replies: "I don't have time."
The unfortunate son who left His father in the wilderness
It is stated in a Hadith, "Allah may defer the punishment for all sins until the Day of Judgment, but the punishment for disobeying parents is given in this life while one is alive."[2]
The consequence of disobeying parents is that one's own children will disobey them. There is a famous incident where a young man got married. His father was old and used to frequently cough. His wife said: "Get this old man out of the house". Since the son had become a slave to his wife, he took his father to abandon him somewhere in the
BOOK TOPIC
- Keagungan dan Keunggulan Seorang Ayah
- Excellence of sending ṣalāt upon the beloved Prophet صَلَّی اللہُ تَعَالٰی عَلَیْہِ وَاٰلِہٖ وَسَلَّمَ
- Keutamaan membaca Shalawat atas Nabi Muhammad صَلَّی اللہُ تَعَالٰی عَلَیْہِ وَاٰلِہٖ وَسَلَّمَ
- Speech intentions
- Niat mendengarkan ceramah
- Berbakti kepada ayah membuat anak menjadi kaya raya
- Serving the father made the son affluent
- Ayah adalah pohon yang meneduhkan
- Beruntunglah mereka yang berbakti kepada orang tua
- A father is a shade-giving tree
- Kisah seorang ayah yang berduka oleh kata – katanya sendiri
- Fortunate are those who serve their parents
- The story of a sorrowful father
- Parents live for their children
- The unfortunate son who left His father in the wilderness
- As you sow, so shall you reap
- Excellences of the father in light of the blessed Aḥādīth
- Reward of one accepted Hajj for every gaze
- What to do if parents passed away displeased?
- Reward of Visiting Parents' Grave on Friday
- Encouragement for pious deed no. 56
- Sunan and etiquettes of sleeping and waking
- The six ṣalawāt and two duꜤāˈs recited in the Sunna-inspired weekly gatherings of Dawat-e-Islami
- 1. The ṣalāt for the night preceding Friday
- Announcement
- 2. All sins forgiven
- 3. Seventy portals of mercy
- 4. The reward of 600,000 Duroods
- 5. Nearness to the Prophet ﷺ
- 6. The ṣalāt of intercession
- Weekly gathering schedule for 19th June 2025
- Remaining sunan and etiquettes of sleeping and waking
- 2. An easy way to spend every night in worship
- 1. Good deeds for 1000 days
- Supplication before ablution
- Method of collective accountability (72 Pious Deeds)
- Method of collective accountability (72 pious deeds) daily 56 pious deeds
- Record of qufl-e-Madinah
- Ten weekly pious deeds
- Three monthly pious deeds
- One yearly pious deed
- Two lifetime pious deeds
- The Amir of Ahl al-Sunna’s dua
