Parents:

Actions that Allah loves best: 1. 2. 3. 4. Prayer at its proper time Kindness to parents Jihad in the way of Allah

Dutifulness to your mother: This book mentions your mother 4 times then your father then closest relatives and then the next. Listening to your mother is the best way to get near to Allah. Be dutiful even if parents are unjust (but no disobedient to Allah)

NINE MAJOR WRONG ACTIONS: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. associating others with Allah, killing someone, desertion from the army when it is advancing, slandering a chaste woman, usury, consuming an orphan's property, heresy in the mosque, scoffing, and causing one's parents to weep through disobedience.

NINE RECOMMENDED ACTIONS: 1. Do not associate anything with Allah, even if you are cut to pieces or burned. 2. Do not abandon a prescribed prayer deliberately. Anyone who abandons it will forfeit Allah's protection. 3. Do not drink wine - it is the key to every evil. 4. Obey your parents. If they command you to abandon your worldly possessions, then leave them for them. 5. Do not contend with those in power, even if you think that you are in the right. 6. Do not run away from the army when it is advances, even if you are killed while your companions run away. 7. Spend on your wife out of your means. 8. Do not raise a stick against your wife. 9. Cause your family to fear Allah, the Almighty and Exalted Note: Cannot repay your father unless if you find him as a slave, buy him, set him free.

The prophet forbade: 1. asking too many questions, 2. wasting money and 3. chit-chat. The Curses of Allah: 1. 2. 3. 4. Allah curses anyone who sacrifices an animal to something other than Allah. Allah curses anyone who steals a milestone. Allah curses anyone who curses his parents. Allah curses anyone who gives shelter to an innovator(Bida?).

10) The One who Fails his Parents will not enter the Garden 11) Allah prolongs the life ofsomeonewho is dutiful towards his parents 28. Maintaining ties of kinship will prolong life Supplications that are not denied by: 1. Someone who is oppressed 2. A traveler 3. Parents for their children Dutifulness towards Parents after their Death 1. 2. 3. 4. Supplication for them, asking forgiveness for them, fulfilling their pledges, and being generous to friends of theirs. You only have ties of kinship through your parents

Donotcut offsomeonewith whom your father maintained ties Father Relationship: 1. Do not call him by his own name 2. nor walk in front of him nor 3. sit down before him

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