وَوَصَّيۡنَا ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ بِوَٰلِدَيۡهِ إِحۡسَٰنًاۖ حَمَلَتۡهُ أُمُّهُۥ كُرۡهٗا وَوَضَعَتۡهُ كُرۡهٗاۖ وَحَمۡلُهُۥ وَفِصَٰلُهُۥ ثَلَٰثُونَ شَهۡرًاۚ حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا بَلَغَ أَشُدَّهُۥ وَبَلَغَ أَرۡبَعِينَ سَنَةٗ قَالَ رَبِّ أَوۡزِعۡنِيٓ أَنۡ أَشۡكُرَ نِعۡمَتَكَ ٱلَّتِيٓ أَنۡعَمۡتَ عَلَيَّ وَعَلَىٰ وَٰلِدَيَّ وَأَنۡ أَعۡمَلَ صَٰلِحٗا تَرۡضَىٰهُ وَأَصۡلِحۡ لِي فِي ذُرِّيَّتِيٓۖ إِنِّي تُبۡتُ إِلَيۡكَ وَإِنِّي مِنَ ٱلۡمُسۡلِمِينَ
And We have enjoined upon man, to his parents, good treatment. His mother carried him with hardship and gave birth to him with hardship, and his gestation and weaning [period] is thirty months. [He grows] until, when he reaches maturity and reaches [the age of] forty years, he says, "My Lord, enable me to be grateful for Your favor which You have bestowed upon me and upon my parents and to work righteousness of which You will approve and make righteous for me my offspring. Indeed, I have repented to You, and indeed, I am of the Muslims
Human procreation takes place through a father and a mother who nurture their offspring through infancy to adulthood. This is, so to say, the natural system of man’s training, which ensures that he develops a keen consciousness of his duties towards human beings along with the feeling that he must acknowledge the grace of his Benefactor and discharge his duties towards Him. This feeling teaches a man two things: firstly, to honour his pledges towards other men and, secondly, to fulfill important obligations to God, the Creator and Lord. Those who learn a lesson from Nature, the great teacher, who activate their sense of moral awareness to the extent that they properly identify and appropriately fulfill their duties towards all, ranging from their parents right up to God, are the ones who will be treated as deserving of the eternal Grace of God in the Hereafter.
انساني نسل كا طريقه يه هے كه آدمي ايك ماں اور ايك باپ كے ذريعه وجود ميں آتا هے جو اس كي پرورش كركے اس كو بڑا بناتے هيں۔ يه گويا انسان كي تربيت كا فطري نظام هے۔ يه اس ليے هے كه اس كے ذريعے سے انسان كے اندر حقوق وفرائض كا شعور پيدا هو۔اس كے اندر يه جذبه پيدا هو كه اسے اپنے محسن كا احسان ماننا هے اور اس كا حق ادا كرنا هے۔ يه جذبه بيك وقت انسان كو دوسرے انسانوں كے حقوق ادا كرنے كي تعليم ديتا هے اور اسي كے ساتھ خالق ومالك خدا كے عظيم تر حقوق كو ادا كرنے كي تعليم بھي۔
جو لوگ فطرت كے معلم سے سبق ليں۔ جو لوگ اپنے شعور كو اس طرح بيدار كريں كه وه اپنے والدين سے لے كر اپنے خدا تك هر ايك كے حقوق كو پهچانيں اور ان كو ٹھيك ٹھيك ادا كريں، وهي وه لوگ هيں جو آخرت ميں خدا كي ابدي رحمتوں كے مستحق قرار دئے جائيں گے۔
Maulana does not cite this verse in the lectures indexed so far. The verses of this surah Maulana does cite →