Transliteration:( Wa in jaahadaaka 'alaaa an tushrika bee maa laisa laka bihee 'ilmun falaa tuti'humaa wa saahib humaa fid dunyaa ma'roofanw wattabi' sabeela man anaaba ilayy; summa ilaiya marji'ukum fa unabbi'ukum bimaa kuntum ta'maloon )
29. It means do not associate any partner with Allah because no one has any knowledge of this association He is our Lord, the One, without any partner.
30. This tells us that in disobeying Allah there is no obedience to parents, ie you should not commit infidelity by listening to them abandon the obligatory acts of worship .
31. In this one statement is included the service and obedience to parents. To spend Your wealth on their welfare. to service them through your physical limbs, to endure their severity, being kind and gentle to them ie maintaining Cordial treatment with your polytheist parents However, follow the path of the pious.
32. From this, emerge a few issues:
1. You must serve and obey your parents, but always adopt the path of the pious. If your parents are apostates and transgressors, then try to guide them, gently.
2. Only that religion is true in which there, are saints of Allah Almighty.
3. The saints have always been conformists (Muqallid) None of them were non-conformists
The tafsir of Surah Luqman verse 15 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Luqman ayat 13 which provides the complete commentary from verse 13 through 15.
(31:15) But if they press you to associate others with Me in My Divinity, (to associate) those regarding whom you have no knowledge[24] (that they are My associates), do not obey them. And yet treat them well in this world, and follow the way of him who turns to Me in devotion. Eventually it is to Me that all of you shall return,[25] and I shall then tell you all that you did.”[26]
24. “All of you”: the children as well as the parents.
25. For explanation, see (Surah Al-Ankabut, ayat 8) note 11-12.
26. The other admonitions of Luqman are being narrated here to imply that like the basic beliefs, the teachings pertaining to morals that the Prophet (peace be upon him) is presenting, are not anything new in Arabia.
[1161]- See footnote to 29:8.
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