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such as : the prohibition of killing a person, and the execution of the
principals of justice, are some evidences among the Islamic instructions upon
the extraordinary importance of the right of parents.
This matter will be made more clear when we note that instead of prohibition
of hurting parents, which parallel other prohibitions mentioned in this verse,
the subject of 'showing kindness to parents' has been referred to. This denotes
that not only creating annoyance to them is unlawful, but, besides that, showing
kindess and benevolence unto them is also necessary.
More interesting than this is that the Arabic word /'ihsan/ (kindness) has
been changed into a transitive form by a preposition, and it has said : "...
and show kidness to your parents, ...".
Thus, the verse emphasizes that the question of 'showing kindness to parents'
should be taken so great and important by a person that the one performs it
directly by himself and without having an intermediary.
2. Slaying Children for Hunger :
It is understood from these verses that during the Age of Ignorance, Arabs
not only used to bury their daughters alive because of their wrong bigotries,
but also killed their sons, who were considered as a great capital in the
society of their time, as a result of fear of poverty.
Unfortunately, this treatment of the Age of Ignorance is being repeated in
another form in our own age, too. Under the excuse of probable deficiency of
food stuff on the earth, the innocent babies are intentionally killed through
abortion when they are in the state of embryo.
It is true that some other reasons are also mentioned for such abortions
today, but the problem of poverty and deficiency of foodstuff is one of its main
reasons.
All of these facts, as well as some other affairs similar to them, show that
the evil manner of the Age of Ignorance is repeated in another form in our time,
so that we can say 'the Ignorance of today' is fulfilled in an even wider and
more terrible case than the ignorance of before Islam.
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