Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:27:49 -0500 Return-Path: phpmailer@islamreligion.com To: you@you.com From: "IslamReligion.com Recommend Service" Subject: Your friend read this article recommends you : How Do Muslims Treat the Elderly? Message-ID: <3b356fe9db1f8982ecd3697a229f2175@www.islamreligion.com> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: PHPMailer [version 1.73] X-Original-Sender-IP: 38.107.191.96 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="b1_3b356fe9db1f8982ecd3697a229f2175" --b1_3b356fe9db1f8982ecd3697a229f2175 Content-Type: text/plain; charset = "iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit How Do Muslims Treat the Elderly? Description: Caring for one’s parents in Islam is considered an honor and a blessing, and an opportunity for great spiritual growth. By islam-guide.com Published on 08 Mar 2006 - Last modified on 23 Oct 2006 Viewed: 8656 (daily average: 6) - Rating: 4.6out of5 - Rated by: 24Printed: 459 - Emailed: 14 - Commented on: 2 Category: Articles > Worship and Practice > Islamic Morals and Practices In the Islamic world, one rarely finds “old people’s homes.”  The strain of caring for one’s parents in this most difficult time of their lives is considered an honor and a blessing and an opportunity for great spiritual growth.  In Islam, it is not enough that we only pray for our parents, but we should act with limitless compassion, remembering that when we were helpless children, they preferred us to themselves.  Mothers are particularly honored.  When Muslim parents reach old age, they are treated mercifully, with kindness and selflessness. In Islam, serving one’s parents is a duty second to prayer, and it is their right to expect it.  It is considered despicable to express any irritation when, through no fault of their own, the old become difficult. God has said: “Your Lord has commanded that you worship none but Him, and that you be kind to your parents.  If one of them or both of them reach old age with you, do not say to them a word of disrespect, or scold them, but say a generous word to them.  And act humbly to them in mercy, and say, ‘My Lord, have mercy on them, since they cared for me when I was small.’” (Quran 17:23-24) The web address of this article:http://www.islamreligion.com/articles/246/Copyright © 2006-2009 IslamReligion.com. All rights reserved. --b1_3b356fe9db1f8982ecd3697a229f2175 Content-Type: text/html; charset = "iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

How Do Muslims Treat the Elderly?

Description: Caring for one’s parents in Islam is considered an honor and a blessing, and an opportunity for great spiritual growth.
By islam-guide.com
 Published on 08 Mar 2006 - Last modified on 23 Oct 2006
Viewed: 8656 (daily average: 6) - Rating: 4.6 out of 5 - Rated by: 24
Printed: 459 - Emailed: 14 - Commented on: 2
Category: Articles > Worship and Practice > Islamic Morals and Practices

In the Islamic world, one rarely finds “old people’s homes.”  The strain of caring for one’s parents in this most difficult time of their lives is considered an honor and a blessing and an opportunity for great spiritual growth.  In Islam, it is not enough that we only pray for our parents, but we should act with limitless compassion, remembering that when we were helpless children, they preferred us to themselves.  Mothers are particularly honored.  When Muslim parents reach old age, they are treated mercifully, with kindness and selflessness.

In Islam, serving one’s parents is a duty second to prayer, and it is their right to expect it.  It is considered despicable to express any irritation when, through no fault of their own, the old become difficult.

God has said:

“Your Lord has commanded that you worship none but Him, and that you be kind to your parents.  If one of them or both of them reach old age with you, do not say to them a word of disrespect, or scold them, but say a generous word to them.  And act humbly to them in mercy, and say, ‘My Lord, have mercy on them, since they cared for me when I was small.’” (Quran 17:23-24)
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