Transliteration:( Wa wassainal insaana bi waalidaihi hamalat hu ummuhoo wahnan 'alaa wahninw wa fisaaluhoo fee 'aamaini anishkur lee wa liwaalidaika ilaiyal maseer )
25. This is a faultfinding statement, which was spoken during the time when the teachings of Hazrat Luqman was being mentioned. It tells us that service of your parents is a lofty act of obedience. Furthermore, even if the parents are infidels, their parental rights are still obligatory upon the children.
26. Weakness of the action, weakness of labour pain followed by difficulty at childbirth.From this we learn that the rights of the mother are greater than that of the father in that the father brought up the child with his wealth, but the mother nourished the baby with her blood.
The Islamic scholars say that the right of service of the mother is greater, but that of obedience or the economic right is greater of the father. For this reason the Holy Prophet said that Paradise lies under the feet of your mother and that you and your wealth belong to your father.
27 The period of breast-feeding is two years. It should be stopped at the end of the second year. Where the period of it is mentioned to be thirty months. It includes six months of pregnancy.
28 Because Allah Almighty is our Lord while our parents are our patrons. Hazrat Sufyaan iba Uyaniyyah says perform your five daily Salaah as a means of expressing gratitude to Allah Almighty, while express gratitude to your parents by offering the dua of forgiveness for them in the Salaah "O my Lord' Forgive me and my parents".
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Please refer to Surah Luqman ayat 13 which provides the complete commentary from verse 13 through 15.
(31:14) We[22] enjoined upon man to be dutiful to his parents. His mother bore him in weakness upon weakness, and his weaning lasted two years.[23] (We, therefore, enjoined upon him): “Give thanks to Me and to your parents. To Me is your ultimate return.
22. From these words, Imam Shafei, Imam Ahmad, Imam Abu Yusuf and Imam Muhammad have drawn the conclusion that the suckling period of the child is two years. If a child has been suckled by the a woman within this period, they will be forbidden for each other for marriage, but if outside and beyond this period, they will not be so. A saying of Imam Malik also supports this. But Imam Abu Hanifah has proposed the period of two and a half years as a precaution, and has added that the child has been weaned after two years, or even earlier, and it is no longer dependent upon suckling for its food, no woman would be forbidden for him, if she gave him suck after that period. However, if the real food of the child is still milk, suckling during the period will render him and her forbidden for each other in spite of his eating the other food in a more or less quantity. For, the verse does not mean that the child should be suckled necessarily for two years. In Surah Al-Baqarah it has been said: “The mothers shall suckle their children for two whole years, if the fathers desire the suckling to be completed.” (Surah Al-Baqarah, Ayat 233). Ibn Abbas from these words has concluded, and other scholars have agreed with him in this, that the shortest period of pregnancy is six months, for the Quran at another place says: “His bearing (in the womb) and his weaning took thirty months.” (Surah Al-Ahqaf, Ayat 15).
23. That is, “About whom you have no knowledge that he is My associate.”
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