the Message Continues ... i2/4
Respect
for parents
Syed
Nasir
Respect
for parents is a norm as well as a requirement in every society. Even the
primitive cultures mandated respect for parents. The unit of family is at the
basis of all human development.
It
revolves around an intrinsic love and respect between parents and children. The
discipline and coherence that resulted from this unique relationship, and the
accompanying altruistic love essentially forms the basis of all later
developments into higher institutions: the clan, the tribe, the society,
ultimately leading to the formation of the institution of the state.
The
relationship between parents and children is reciprocally based on mutual love
and respect.
This
relationship is the key to the individual happiness as well as the collective
success of a society.
Western
society has been able to achieve success in arriving at a material prosperity.
But in the rat
race that followed, the family as a unit started decaying; the moral
values diminished
As a result,
the West is confused. It is unable to handle the problems resulting from the
epidemic of divorce and the broken homes, illegitimate births and the single
parent family, a phenomenon of the passing Century.
Children
born in adverse, unnatural environments, deprived of love often turn into
criminals. The West is at a loss to find
solutions to the adolescent violence stemming from the weakening of the
traditional family unit.
Is there a solution to the dilemma faced by the nations of the West? Is there a way out of this chaos? Yes. It is there provided the West is willing to submit to the will of the Creator, the One and only One God.
There
is light at the end of the tunnel and that light is the Qur’an
and its eternal message that provides solution to all human problems