🌟 Allah says: ❛And lower unto them (your parents) the wing of submission and humility through rahmah, and say: ❛My Rabb, bestow on them (my parents) Your Rahmah as they raised me when I was young.❜ [Surah al-Isra’ 17 : 24]
When someone says that a person is “raising / lowering his wings”, an imagery of a bird comes to mind. Obviously when the bird has wings, it has the ability to raise them anytime it wants.
We have our own job and money. We have a pair of strong wings which we can raise anytime we want. But Allah teaches us to lower our wings, to be humble towards our parents, to not treat them harshly or say hurtful words towards them.
And then at the end of of the aayah is this beautiful du’a: ❛My Rabb, bestow on them (my parents) Your Rahmah as they raised me when I was young.❜
Showing rahmah alone towards our parents is insufficient for us to compensate for the rahmah that they did for us. So we're taught to seek the best form of rahmah for them from Ar-Rahman Himself.
What a beautiful aayah. May Allah make it easy for us to show rahmah towards our parents so that we may earn His rahmah, and forgive us for our shortcomings in our dealings towards them.
Your sister in Deen, Aida Msr ©












