Question: What does the Qur'an say about one's relation with their parents?
Answer: According to the Qur'an:
- To parents do good
- To parents leave bequest when death approaches
- Spend on your parents
- Speak to them a noble word
- Do not repel them or say to them as much as "Uff"
- Pray to them and ask God to be merciful on them
- "And [recall] when We took the covenant from the Children of Israel, [enjoining upon them], "Do not worship except Allah ; and to parents do good and to relatives, orphans, and the needy. And speak to people good [words] and establish prayer and give zakah." Then you turned away, except a few of you, and you were refusing." (2:83)
Answer: According to the Qur'an:
- To parents do good
- To parents leave bequest when death approaches
- Spend on your parents
- Speak to them a noble word
- Do not repel them or say to them as much as "Uff"
- Pray to them and ask God to be merciful on them
Answer in the Qur'an in: Sura 2 (Al Baqara), Sura 4 (Al Nissa'a), Sura 6 (Al An'am), and Sura 17 (Al Isra'a)
- "And [recall] when We took the covenant from the Children of Israel, [enjoining upon them], "Do not worship except Allah ; and to parents do good and to relatives, orphans, and the needy. And speak to people good [words] and establish prayer and give zakah." Then you turned away, except a few of you, and you were refusing." (2:83)
- "Prescribed for you when death approaches
[any] one of you if he leaves wealth [is that he should make] a bequest
for the parents and near relatives according to what is acceptable - a duty
upon the righteous." (2:180)
- "They ask you, [O Muhammad], what they should
spend. Say, "Whatever you spend of good is [to be] for parents and
relatives and orphans and the needy and the traveler. And whatever you do of
good - indeed, Allah is Knowing of it." (2:215)
- "Worship Allah and associate nothing with Him, and
to parents do good, and to relatives, orphans, the needy, the near
neighbor, the neighbor farther away, the companion at your side, the traveler,
and those whom your right hands possess. Indeed, Allah does not like those who
are self-deluding and boastful." (4:36)
- "Say, "Come, I will recite what your Lord
has prohibited to you. [He commands] that you not associate anything with Him, and
to parents, good treatment, and do not kill your children out of poverty;
We will provide for you and them. And do not approach immoralities - what is
apparent of them and what is concealed. And do not kill the soul which Allah
has forbidden [to be killed] except by [legal] right. This has He instructed
you that you may use reason." (6:151)
- "And your Lord has decreed that you not worship
except Him, and to parents, good treatment. Whether one or both of them
reach old age [while] with you, say not to them [so much as], "uff,"
and do not repel them but speak to them a noble word." (17: 23)
- "And lower to them the wing of humility out of
mercy and say, "My Lord, have mercy upon them as they brought me up
[when I was] small." (17:24)
