Public:Someone forwarded this to my email. :)
When our fathers irritate us
An old man was sitting in the courtyard of his house along with his
son who had received a high education. Suddenly a crow perched on a
wall of the house. The father asked the son: What is this? The son
replied: It is a crow. After a little while the father again asked the
son: What is this? The son said: It is a crow.
After a few minutes the father asked his son the third time: What is
this? The son said: Father, I have just now told you that this is a
crow. After a little while the old father again asked his son the
fourth time: what is this? By this time some statement of irritation
was felt in the son's tone when he rebuffed his father: Father! It is
a crow, a crow. A little after the father again asked his son: What is
this? This time the son replied to his father with a vein of temper.
Father: You are always repeating the same question, although I have
told you so many times that it is a crow. Are you not able to
understand this?
The father went to his room and came back with an old diary. Opening a
page he asked his son to read what was written. What the son read were
the following words written in the diary:
'Today my little son was sitting with me in the courtyard, when a crow
came there. My son asked me twenty-five times what it was and I told
him twenty-five times that it was a crow and I did not at all feel
irritated. I rather felt affection for my innocent child.'
The father then explained to his son the difference between a father's
and a son's attitude. While you were a little child you asked me this
question twenty-five times and I felt no irritation in replying to the
question twenty-five times and when today I asked you the same
question only five times, you felt irritated, annoyed and impatient
with me.
Allah mentions in Surah Bani-Israil 17:23-24
And your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him. And that you
be dutiful to your parents. If one of them or both of them attain old
age in your life, say not to them a word of disrespect, nor shout at
them but address them in terms of honour.
And lower unto them the wing of submission and humility through mercy,
and say: "My Lord! Bestow on them Your Mercy as they did bring me up
when I was small"
An old man was sitting in the courtyard of his house along with his
son who had received a high education. Suddenly a crow perched on a
wall of the house. The father asked the son: What is this? The son
replied: It is a crow. After a little while the father again asked the
son: What is this? The son said: It is a crow.
After a few minutes the father asked his son the third time: What is
this? The son said: Father, I have just now told you that this is a
crow. After a little while the old father again asked his son the
fourth time: what is this? By this time some statement of irritation
was felt in the son's tone when he rebuffed his father: Father! It is
a crow, a crow. A little after the father again asked his son: What is
this? This time the son replied to his father with a vein of temper.
Father: You are always repeating the same question, although I have
told you so many times that it is a crow. Are you not able to
understand this?
The father went to his room and came back with an old diary. Opening a
page he asked his son to read what was written. What the son read were
the following words written in the diary:
'Today my little son was sitting with me in the courtyard, when a crow
came there. My son asked me twenty-five times what it was and I told
him twenty-five times that it was a crow and I did not at all feel
irritated. I rather felt affection for my innocent child.'
The father then explained to his son the difference between a father's
and a son's attitude. While you were a little child you asked me this
question twenty-five times and I felt no irritation in replying to the
question twenty-five times and when today I asked you the same
question only five times, you felt irritated, annoyed and impatient
with me.
Allah mentions in Surah Bani-Israil 17:23-24
And your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him. And that you
be dutiful to your parents. If one of them or both of them attain old
age in your life, say not to them a word of disrespect, nor shout at
them but address them in terms of honour.
And lower unto them the wing of submission and humility through mercy,
and say: "My Lord! Bestow on them Your Mercy as they did bring me up
when I was small"