Ahmad Mohammad أبو البهاء :
**The Treasure of Happiness and Success**
If Allah grants you the ability to serve your parents and honors you by enabling you to be dutiful to them, thereby earning their pleasure, then the blessing has been completed.
A man came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said: "I long to strive in the path of Allah (jihād), but I am unable to do so." He wished to participate in jihād, but did not have the ability.
The Prophet ﷺ asked him, "Is either of your parents still alive?"
The man replied, "My mother is still alive."
The Prophet ﷺ then said, "Seek Allah through being dutiful to her. If you do so, then you are as one who has performed Hajj, 'Umrah, and striven in the path of Allah."
True dutifulness to one's parents is to bring joy to the hearts of one's mother and father.
My dear child, a single word of approval from your father or your mother is enough to secure for you happiness in this world and the Hereafter.
If a father and mother are truly pleased with their son or daughter from the depths of their hearts, that child will be blessed with happiness in both his religion and his worldly life.
But if a father or mother is deeply hurt because of their child, that child will never see true goodness, even if he were to accumulate the wealth of Qārūn. It is a life of continuous misery.
Today, many young people are deceived by their friends and desire to travel. They leave behind their father and mother in search of a better future.
My dear child, where are you going? You have abandoned the treasure, only to go and eat from the garbage.
Honoring your parents is a treasure that Allah has placed within your reach.
A person leaves his father and mother, travels for years, wandering from place to place in the hope of securing his future, only to return with nothing.
He abandoned the treasure. Serving one's parents is the treasure of happiness.
If a person fails to recognize its value, then he has truly lost the happiness of this world and the Hereafter.
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