ownership; they have been declared to be the owner of their dowry, their businesses and properties, and have been made inheritors of the inheritance left by their parents, brothers and sisters, children and husbands.^[1]

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                 صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Vital aspects of Islamic guidance about parents

Dear Islamic brothers, parents are the great individuals whose children mean everything to them. No matter if the children are useless, disobedient or disabled, they are still the apple of their eyes. Unfortunately, parents are the helpless members of society who have been greatly oppressed in every era. Disobedient children forget all the favours of their parents and consider them مَعاذ َاللہ to be an inconvenience. They treat their parents worse than servants.

If parents advise their children for their betterment, children glare at them, scold them, taunt them and threaten to expel them from the home. Things have now reached a stage that in some countries, old People’s homes have been established to look after the parents who have been expelled from their homes and oppressed by their children. In the old people’s home, parents spend their entire life feeling sorrow for the separation from their children and crying in their remembrance.

Remember! Islam strongly condemns these things. In Islam, plenty of clear guidance has been given on the respect for parents and fulfilling their rights.  The amount of encouragement and emphasis Islam has put on fulfilling their rights and protecting their honour is sufficient to awaken heedless people to it. Commanding people to treat parents well, Allah Almighty has stated in verses 23 and 24 of Surah Banī Isrāˈīl, part 15:

وَ بِالْوَالِدَیْنِ اِحْسَانًاؕ-اِمَّا یَبْلُغَنَّ عِنْدَكَ الْكِبَرَ اَحَدُهُمَاۤ اَوْ كِلٰهُمَا فَلَا تَقُلْ لَّهُمَاۤ اُفٍّ وَّ لَا تَنْهَرْهُمَا وَ قُلْ لَّهُمَا قَوْلًا كَرِیْمًا(۲۳) وَ اخْفِضْ لَهُمَا جَنَاحَ الذُّلِّ مِنَ الرَّحْمَةِ وَ قُلْ