Mention of what is reasonable regarding dutifulness to parents and maintaining kinship ties.
The right of the benefactor is not hidden from a sensible person.
And there is no one who bestows favors on a person after the Truth, the Exalted, like the two parents.
Indeed, the mother bore many heavy burdens in carrying him.
And she encountered, at the time of his birth, distressing and agitating episodes.
And she went to extremes in raising him,
And she kept vigil in attending to him,
And she turned away from all her desires,
And she preferred him over her self in every circumstance.
And indeed, the father added to the causing of his coming into being his love after his coming into existence.
and his compassion,
and raising him by earning a livelihood for him and by spending on him.
And the wise person recognizes what is owed to the benefactor.
And he strives to reward him.
A person's ignorance of the rights of the benefactor is among his most despicable traits.
Especially when, in addition to denying the corresponding right, he repays it with a harmful return.
And let the dutiful person know about the parents.
However much he went to great lengths to be dutiful to them, he did not repay them with thanks.
Narrated by Zur'ah, son of Ibrahim,
That a man came to Umar,
He said, "I have a mother who has reached old age,"
and that she does not meet her needs except by using my back as her mount.
I mistreat her, and I turn my face away from her.
So, have you fulfilled her right?
He said, "No."
Did I not already carry her on my back and spare her from exile?
He said that she used to do that to you.
She wishes you would stay, while you wish to be apart from her.
And Umar saw a man carrying his mother,
And indeed something like a small pouch was placed on his back for her.
He walks around the house with her, saying
I carry my mother, and she, the carrier, nurses me the pearl and the little treasure.
Then Umar said, "Have I now reached my mother?"
So I turned away from her, just as I had turned.
She is dearer to me than the red camels.
And a man said to Abdullah ibn Umar.
I carried my mother on my neck from Khurasan.
Until I completed the pilgrimage rites with her,
Do you think I repaid her?
He said, "No."
Not even a single pronouncement of divorce from her.
And it is compared to the closeness of the parents to the child.
The closeness of the man's relatives and kinship.
One should not be negligent in safeguarding his right.
