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Lesson 3 of 6 · What birr al-walidayn actually requires

The sentence you have probably been told

If you were a good Muslim you would just obey her. She carried you for nine months. Paradise is under her feet. Your parents are your paradise and your hell.

That last one circulates everywhere and we could not find a source for it, so we are not going to repeat it as though it were a text. It is a saying. Somebody said it once and it travelled.

The rest of this lesson is what the Qur'an and the sound reports actually say. It is more demanding than you expect in one direction and much less demanding than you have been told in another.

What birr al-walidayn actually requires · Inshirah