Did he ever say: "Son, I really liked these shoes today, so I bought them for myself"? Never! Instead, the father was always heard saying, "I brought this for my son, for my daughter, for my wife."

Parents are extraordinary people. They live not for themselves, but for their children. When a child grows up and treats their parents disrespectfully and unkindly, speaking hurtful words, how much pain must that bring to their parents' hearts?

In Islamic literature, the level of respect a father deserves is mentioned to the extent that: "A son should be before his father like a servant before his master."^[1] When a father gives an order to his son, the son should willingly obey. This is a father's right over his son and a matter of respect.

Today, the situation has reached a point where the son acts like the father, and the father acts like a servant. Now the father asks, "Son, I need a little money," and the son refuses, saying: "I don't have any money." The father says: "Son, come here, I have a small task," and the son replies: "I don't have time."

The unfortunate son who left His father in the wilderness

It is stated in a Hadith, "Allah may defer the punishment for all sins until the Day of Judgment, but the punishment for disobeying parents is given in this life while one is alive."^[2]

The consequence of disobeying parents is that one's own children will disobey them. There is a famous incident where a young man got married. His father was old and used to frequently cough. His wife said: "Get this old man out of the house". Since the son had become a slave to his wife, he took his father to abandon him somewhere in the