OBEDIENCE TO PARENTS CLASHING WITH OBEDIENCE TO ALLAAH
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Title: OBEDIENCE TO PARENTS CLASHING WITH OBEDIENCE TO ALLAAH
Created on: Thu Oct 04 14:26:57 -0400 2007
Updated on: Thu Oct 04 14:26:57 -0400 2007
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Abstract: ... knowingly and deliberately - while remembering it - so He ordered them to worship Him alone and not to associate anything with Him, and He ordered that for all of the creation and that is the reason why He created them...And that is the highest and greatest of the rights of Allaah the Blessed and Most High - that He alone should be worshipped, and then after that comes the rights of the creation, and the most important of these is the right of the parents and therefore He joins the two." So anything which Allaah or His Messenger (sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam) have obligated must be carried out and if the parents try to prevent that then they must be disobeyed in that. Ibn Taimiyyah (raaimahullaah) says Majmoo al-Fataawaa, 14/339-340): "And part of giving thanks for the good that someone does is the thanks due to the parents and others who do good to you, since 'He who does not thank the people does not thank Allaah.' , however - the right of no person, nor his favours can ever reach the level that they be thanked with the disobedience to Allaah, or that be obeyed in disobedience to Allaah - since Allaah is the Qne who sends down all the great blessings, which none of the creation are able to . And even favours done by any of the creation are from Him also, as He says:And ye have no good thing but it is from Allaah 9 and He says: And He has subjected to you, as from Him, all that is in the heavens and on earthl0 And no one is able to recompense obedience, disobedience and Kufr but Him . Therefore it is not possible that anyone be obeyed in disobedience to the Creator as He says: ~We have enJoined on man kindness to parents: but if They (either of them) strive (to force) thee to Join with Me anything of which thou hast no knowledge. obey Them not.Ye have (all) to return to Me, and I will tell You ~the truth) of all that ye did."11 ...Show gratitude to Me and to thy parents: To me is (thy final) Goal.But... [Full Article...]
