Birr al-Walidayn
Birr al-Walidayn is honoring and dutifully treating one's parents, a duty the Qur'an places right alongside the command to worship God alone. It includes speech, financial support where needed, and care in old age. Fatwas on the subject often address its limits when a parent's instruction conflicts with a religious obligation.
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How can one definitively get rid of the obsessive thoughts (waswas) related to filial piety (birr al-walidayn) and general ideological and religious obsessive thoughts? And what is the difference between filial piety (birr al-walidayn) and obedience to parents? How is filial piety (birr) to be observed, and what are the limits of obedience? Is it permissible for an adult son to choose his clothes, his wife, and his profession, and to manage his life affairs without parental interference? What is the ruling on obeying parents if they command disobedience, or something that contradicts obedience to Allah and His Messenger, or something that causes harm, or a matter pertaining to the adult son, such as marriage, work, or clothing? What is the treatment for ideological and religious obsessive thoughts, their source, and ways to prevent them?
The Sharia commanded filial piety towards parents and obedience to them in what is good. However, obedience is not obligatory in disobedience to the Creator, or in what harms the child, or in what does not benefit the…
What is the ruling on the 'Salat Birr al-Walidayn' (Prayer for Filial Piety) and the 'Salat Qada' al-Fawa'it' (Prayer for Making Up Missed Prayers) mentioned in the question?
The "Birr al-Walidayn" (Filial Piety) prayer performed congregationally after Maghrib is an innovation (bid'ah) for which there is no evidence in the Shari'ah. Sheikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah mentioned similar innovative…
How can one get rid of envy (hasad) or the evil eye (ayn) that has caused a decrease in the blessings of wealth, despite observing what is lawful and unlawful (halal and haram) and honoring one's parents (birr al-walidayn)?
What has befallen you may be a trial from Allah to raise your status and expiate your sins, or it could be due to envy (hasad). You must be patient, supplicate, and perform Ruqyah شرعية ( Shar'i exorcism/incantations).…
Questions that use it
Is sponsoring an orphan (kafalat al-yatim) on behalf of a father who is unaware of it considered an act of honoring one's parents (birr al-walidayn), and is it obligatory to inform him?
Is it obligatory for parents to try to bring their son back home after he left it due to problems with his wife, or should they wait for him to return of his own free will, and is his action considered a sin?
If my mother commands me to perform a Sunnah, does it become obligatory for me?