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Alhamdulillah. Muhammad. Frozen. Not indeed all praise it belongs and is due to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship except Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And I bear witness that Muhammad sallall.aii wasallam is his final messenger.
In each of our lives, as we get older and our responsibilities, they accumulate. Different types of debt they come upon us. Utility bills, water bills, electricity, gas, house bills, all these types of bills, debts that come to you. And the requirement is what? Is that you pay those debts and Allah subhana wa ta'ala facilitates provides for you that you're able to pay off those debts. Alhamdulillah.
Somebody does a good turn for you and so then you want to respond in kind. So do you buy a gift for them so you repay them and you have the ability to repay them? These are things which you and I were able to achieve by Allah's grace. However, how often do we think about a debt if you want to call it or something that we owe that can never be paid back. Something that is due upon your shoulders from the time that you come into this world. And that the time will come when you realize that you have to give something back. Furthermore, you realize that whatever you do, you can never fulfill it. Whatever you do, you can never give full justice to that what is owed first and foremost to Allah subhana wa ta'ala. Whatever you do, you can never give back to Allah subhana wa ta'ala what he is due, what he is owed, what he has given you.
But also and it is the topic that I want to talk about set of individuals whom we know so well and that we love so much that whatever I do I can never give them back what they did for me. Every single one of us without exception, the youth from amongst us, the respected elders from amongst us, every single one of us has this debt over our own selves which we can never give back in a way that we would like to give it back. And who are these people? Who are these individuals that I can never fulfill? Sure, you know who I'm talking about. That's our own mothers and our own fathers.
There may be the youth amongst us who really may not understand the magnamity or the greatness of what I'm talking about how important it is in Islam that the way to reach Allah subhana wa ta'ala it has been made clear and it is one way to Allah Quran and following the way of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. No disagreement upon that. But the way to achieve salvation to be successful one it may be different between ourselves. The Jenna is not one. There are many doors of Jenna. There is the door of fasting, the door of salah. There is the door of jihad. There are many doors which a person may enter from. A person who fasted extensively. This is your door to enter into Jenna through this gate. Another person through another door. But one of those doors, one of those opportunities is to be dutiful to your parents.
Maybe the one thing that you have in your control. Maybe you're not rich. You can't give lots of charity. You can't make every year. You can't make Hajj whenever you like. But there's one thing that you do have that your parents are with you. They are alive. That is one thing. This is one way that you may attain salvation. Being dutiful to your parents in an era now in a time now where this has been eroded away been taken away from the minds of people what it is to be dutiful to one's parents to be respectful of one's parents.
Allah subhana wa ta'ala made it very clear in the Quran that we are to worship him alone not associate any partners with him. This is the h the right of Allah over us that he created us and we worship him alone. Along with that in the many places that is mentioned the right of Allah subhana wa ta'ala the reason that you and I were created to worship him alone the very next thing that is mentioned is the right of the creation between themselves and this is where Allah subhana wa ta'ala talks talks about the sons and the daughters the children to be dutiful and respectful to one's parents. Worship Allah subhana wa ta'ala alone and do not associate anything with him and to be dutiful to one's or both parents.
Now to be dutiful and that's a a loose translation and to leave it at that is a lame translation. It's a poor translation. It gives you the understanding of what what the ayah is talking about. But what is expected of you is far greater. To givean to your parents means that you will try to achieve perfection in everything that you do and that you give to your parents. As I mentioned from the time that you came that we all came into this earth. Something for you and I to ponder over. We will not remember it. But your mother before you were born, from the day that you were conceived, may be holding her hand over her stomach, asking Allah to protect you, to keep you safe before you came into the dunya, making dua for you, asking Allah that you are from the pious and that you are from the righteous, that you're an obedient and you're a good person, a respectful person. Before you came here, your mother was making dua for you, carried you, ate well, was careful of herself not to harm herself because you were there in her stomach. And then you were born and you cried and you had nothing. She cuddled you, she fed you, she clothed you. All by Allah's permission. And that continued. No days off. No skipping days. One day on, one day off. Because your needs didn't have a day off. They were every single day. They were every single hour. Every few hours waking up needs crying. And your parents were there. Your father doing what was necessary to maybe look after the home, facilitating the food and the clothing and the rent being paid. You are not oblivious to that. But you grew up and you worshiped Allah subhana wa ta'ala. These are things that we can never give back to our parents. You can never give it back to them. What is due? This is the debt as I mentioned can never ever be paid off.
But many of us we think we are being dutiful. We are think I'm fulfilling the huck. Why? Because I'm giving them what I think is good for them. This is not this is not being dutiful to one's parents. Being dutiful to one's parents is what is giving them their needs and what they need. Not what you think they need, not what satisfies you, but will satisfy them. And it is your business not for you to wait until they ask for something. It is your important business for you to know what they need before they even know it. Simple example, it's very hot these days. Do they have a fan in the home? Maybe they don't have a fan. So you buy something that they may need now or in the future. You're constantly thinking how I can be dutiful, how I can serve my parents. This is the type of mentality that is being eroded and lost within communities.
If you look at the story and I'm barely touching the service, brothers and sisters, in terms of this topic, and I mention it why? Because a lot of our youth, they're not at college, they're not at uni, they're not at school. They come to the mas. Alhamdulillah. They need to hear something. Even old all older from our community. We need to be reminded as well about being dutiful and respectful to our parents. This will be the source of your success in this life. Barely touching the surface about the virtues of being dutiful about the importance of being good to one's parents the stories that you find in the Quran from making dua for his parents may Allah forgive them the story of and being dutiful to their parents Ibraimisam dealing with an idol maker his own father but addressing him Yeti abati my dear father my dear father advising him being calm with him and even though in the end he was rebuked and talked to and spoken to so harshly but respectful this is what needs to be put within our understanding within our our communities to bring back this understanding of being dutiful to one's parents.
Serving Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and serving one's parents is the right of Allah our creator and the right of the creation the most important in both areas. The reward of being dutiful to one's parents a pass into the paradise. The pleasure of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. It's punishment being distant away from the mercy of Allah subhana wa ta'ala. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam even furthermore told us imagine the reward. It increases your lifespan. Okay. How can it increase my lifespan? Is it not written my age a set a set age? Yes. But it may also written be written that because you were dutiful to your parents that Allah subhana t gave you more time. There's only righteous and being good to one's due dutiful to one's parents is that which will increase your age. These are some of the virtues of being to our parents, good to our parents, dutiful to our parents supersedes making hijra.
Some of the companions they came to the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam. I came to you oh messenger of Allah to make hijra with you to make jihad with you oh messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam on both occasions. Are your parents alive? Go back to them and strive with them. Did you seek their permission? No. Go back to them. This is how the prophet wasallam taught us about the importance of being dutiful to one's parents. Once you and I understand its reality, we will prioritize as it should be prioritized. And may Allah subh make us from those people. in the world of our life.