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A little boy came up to his mother in the kitchen one evening while she was setting the dastarkhaan (floor mat) and all of a sudden the son shocked his mother with a piece of paper
The school the boy went to taught him how to type and print so he thought he would be fancy. The paper looked like this:
The mother looked at him, standing there. She picked up the pen, turned over the paper he’d written on and this is what she wrote:
When the boy finished reading what his mother wrote, there were big tears in his eyes, and he looked at his mother and said, ” Ummi, I sure do love you” . He then took the pen and in great big letters wrote, ” I OWE UMMI, I HAVE A HUGE OUTSTANDING DEBT TO PAY”
Quran – Surah No. 17 الإسراءAyah No. 23
Translation:And your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him and do good to parents. If either of them or both reach old age, do not say to them uff (a word of anger or contempt) and do not scold them. And address them with respectful words,
Quran – Surah No. 17 الإسراءAyah No. 24
Translation:
and submit yourself before them in humility out of compassion and say, My Lord, be merciful to them as they have brought me up in my childhood.”
