This article aims to talk about the patience and tolerance of parents towards their children. The father always wants to see his children better than him. The mother also carried her children in her womb for nine long months and nourished them from it. The days of sickness, the days of breastfeeding and the comfort and devotion are amongst the things parents do.
Parents are depriving themselves to provide their children with everything they need and what brings happiness to them, and they are very patient with all these meanings for the sake of their children. It is also the hard work outside the home to provide a decent living for their children and substitute a great effort to study children with children of their generation to obtain a higher degree to gain a decent living and basic needs. Parents work hard with patience and strength and do not expect in return. Fathers and mothers are like the sun from which we derive the warmth of hope, optimism and sacrifice, so our true religion recommended the importance of parents: "And We have enjoined upon man, to his parents, good treatment. His mother carried him with hardship and gave birth to him with hardship, and his gestation and weaning [period] are thirty months. [He grows] until, when he reaches maturity and reaches [the age of] forty years, he says, "My Lord, enable me to be grateful for Your favour which You have bestowed upon me and upon my parents and to work the righteousness of which You will approve and make righteous for me my offspring. Indeed, I have repented to You, and indeed, I am of the Muslims." [Quran, The Wind-Curved (Surah Al-Ahqaf), Verse 15] From here we know the value and position of parents with Allah (The Most High). He knows their patience and sacrifice, and Allah (The Most High) also revealed in the Glorious Quran: "Mothers may breastfeed their children two complete years for whoever wishes to complete the nursing [period]. Upon the father are the mothers' provision and their clothing according to what is acceptable. No person is charged with more than his capacity. No mother should be harmed through her child and no father through his child. And upon the [father's] heir is [a duty] like that [of the father]. And if they both desire to wean through mutual consent from both of them and consultation, there is no blame upon either of them. And if you wish to have your children nursed by a substitute, there is no blame upon you as long as you give payment according to what is acceptable. And fear Allah and know that Allah is Seeing of what you do." [Quran, Surah Al-Baqarah (The Cow), 233] The patience of parents is shown during blessings and afflictions of trials. Prophet Joseph (peace be upon him) with his father Prophet Jacob (peace be upon him) is a good example of sacrifice and patience. Joseph was dearest amongst Jacob's children and Allah (The Most High) wanted to test his patience by separating Jacob from Joseph for a long period. Joseph's twelve brothers were jealous of their brother and saw that he had preoccupied their father's heart for them, so they wanted to get rid of him. So they arranged a plot and trick, so they took Joseph (peace be upon him) under the pretext of hiking and playing, then they threw him in a deep well. They took his shirt and had contaminated it with false blood. His father did not believe their narration and; his eyes filled with grief for Joseph, and his absence remained for nearly forty or eighty years, and it was said otherwise, and father Jacob - peace be upon him - during all these years was patient and, so he did not lose hope for the return of his son, and he did not despair of the mercy of Allah (The Most High). Parents love their children very much and; they fear for them or when they are hurt. There are also other examples of the patience of parents with their offspring, for instance, Maryam with her son Prophet Isa (peace be upon him), Prophet Noah (peace be upon him) with his son. Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) when he lost his son Ibrahim. Parents always see themselves in their children, and the giving is always free of charge and patience for all the difficulties that life has brought with it to build a family dominated by love, honesty, trust and morals.
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