The factors that help in being dutiful to parents
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Question:
May Allah bless you and reward you, Honorable Shaykh! This questioner says: What is the greatest factor in being dutiful to one's father, and how can this dutifulness be great?
Answer:
The greatest factor is knowing the right of the father, and that Allah has placed it after His own right.[An-Nisa 4:36], [Al-Isra 17:23], [An-Nisa 4:36], [Luqman 31:14], so the right of the father comes after the right of Allah in status.
And undutifulness to the father comes after shirk (associating partners with Allah) in severity, and may Allah protect us from that. So you must be dutiful to your father, and when you remember this, you will know the status of the father and his right over you, and you will know the danger of undutifulness. Then you will avoid undutifulness to the father; you will avoid it and guard against it. And you must visualize and recall what the father exerted for you when you were small, how he raised you and fed you, and how he toiled for you. So remember this.[Al-Isra 17:24]. Yes.
May Allah bless you and reward you, Honorable Shaykh! This questioner says: What is the greatest factor in being dutiful to one's father, and how can this dutifulness be great?
Answer:
The greatest factor is knowing the right of the father, and that Allah has placed it after His own right.
Worship Allah and associate nothing with Him, and to parents do good
وَاعْبُدُوا اللَّهَ وَلَا تُشْرِكُوا بِهِ شَيْئًا وَبِالْوَالِدَيْنِ إِحْسَانًاAnd your Lord has decreed that you not worship except Him, and to parents, good treatment.
وَقَضَىٰ رَبُّكَ أَلَّا تَعْبُدُوا إِلَّا إِيَّاهُ وَبِالْوَالِدَيْنِ إِحْسَانًاWorship Allah and associate nothing with Him, and to parents do good
وَاعْبُدُوا اللَّهَ وَلَا تُشْرِكُوا بِهِ شَيْئًا وَبِالْوَالِدَيْنِ إِحْسَانًاBe grateful to Me and to your parents
أَنِ اشْكُرْ لِي وَلِوَالِدَيْكَAnd undutifulness to the father comes after shirk (associating partners with Allah) in severity, and may Allah protect us from that. So you must be dutiful to your father, and when you remember this, you will know the status of the father and his right over you, and you will know the danger of undutifulness. Then you will avoid undutifulness to the father; you will avoid it and guard against it. And you must visualize and recall what the father exerted for you when you were small, how he raised you and fed you, and how he toiled for you. So remember this.
and say, "My Lord, have mercy upon them as they brought me up [when I was] small."
وَقُل رَّبِّ ارْحَمْهُمَا كَمَا رَبَّيَانِي صَغِيرًا
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 7789- الأسباب المعينة على بر الوالدين - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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