{"id":12999,"date":"2026-02-08T23:36:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T23:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=12999"},"modified":"2026-02-08T23:36:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T23:36:55","slug":"kindness-to-the-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=12999","title":{"rendered":"Kindness to Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almighty Allah says:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;padding-right: 30px\"><strong>And your Lord has decreed that you not worship except Him, and to parents, good treatment.<\/strong> (<a title=\"Recitation of Surat Al-Israa\u2019\" href=\"http:\/\/www.learning-quran.com\/quran-translations\/en-translation\/mishari-bin-rashid\/recitation-surat-al-israa\/\">Al-Israa\u2019<\/a> 17:23)<\/p>\n<p>In this short talk, Sheikh Abdul Nasir Jangda talks about the status of the parents in Islam and how the Qur\u2019an and the <i>Sunnah<\/i> of the Prophet (peace be upon him) stress on being kind and good to one\u2019s parents.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Abdul Nasir begins his talk by defining the word <i>\u2018birr\u2019<\/i> (the highest level of piety) which has been mentioned many times in the Qur\u2019an and always has a close connection with parents.<\/p>\n<p>Islam teaches us that respect for parents comes immediately after fulfilling our responsibilities in connection to obeying Allah. It was narrated that `Abdullah ibn Mas`ud said, \u201cI asked the Prophet, &#8216;Which deed is loved most by Allah?&#8221; He replied, &#8216;To offer prayers at their early (very first) stated times.'&#8221; `Abdullah asked, &#8220;What is the next (in goodness)?&#8221; The Prophet said, &#8220;To be good and dutiful to one\u2019s parents,&#8221; `Abdullah asked, &#8220;What is the next (in goodness)?&#8221; The Prophet said, To participate in Jihad for Allah&#8217;s Cause.&#8221; `Abdullah added, &#8220;The Prophet narrated to me these three things, and if I had asked more, he would have told me more.&#8221; (Al-Bukhari)<\/p>\n<p>Then, he mentions some advice to the parents when raising their children and how to train them on being good and kind to their parents when they grow up.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy watching this talk with Sheikh Abdul Nasir Jangda to learn more about kindness to parents.<\/p>\n<p>______________________<\/p>\n<p><i>Source: Quran Weekly Youtube Channel<\/i><a href='https:\/\/www.learning-quran.com\/kindness-to-the-parents\/' target='_blank'>Soucre Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the status of parents in the Qur\u2019an? How does Islam emphasize on the relation with the parents? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1320],"tags":[69,385,1494,9,8183,624,8184,809,11,12,8185,8186,1011,1351,8187,8188,8189,1112,8190,7977],"class_list":["post-12999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learn-the-quran","category-quran-interpretation","tag-about-the-quran","tag-book-of-allah","tag-father","tag-featured","tag-good-morals","tag-how-to-learn-the-quran","tag-kindness-to-the-parents","tag-knowledge","tag-learn-the-quran","tag-learning-the-quran","tag-love-for-parents","tag-mother-in-the-quran","tag-parents-in-the-quran","tag-quran-weekly","tag-rank-of-mother","tag-relationship-with-parents","tag-respect-for-parents","tag-sheikh-abdul-nasir-jangda","tag-status-of-mother","tag-status-of-parents-in-islam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/baby-holding-fathers-hand.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}