peevish, insane, grumpy, quarrelsome and troublesome due to their old age and diseases, you still have to be patient, patient and nothing but patient with them, treating them with respect. Do not even say ‘uff’ to them, let alone being rude to them and shouting at them or else you may suffer a great loss, meeting doom in the world and in the Hereafter. The one who hurts the feeling of his parents is humiliated and disgraced in the world and deserves torment in Hereafter.
Dil dukĥānā cĥor dayn mān bāp kā
Warnaĥ is mayn ĥay khasāraĥ āp kā
Stop hurting the feelings of your parents
Otherwise you will be in great detriment
(Wasāil-e-Bakhshish, pp. 377)
Sayyidunā ‘Awwām Bin Ḥawshab عَـلَيْهِ رَحْـمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ الـرَّب (who was amongst the Tab’-e-Tābi’īn and passed away in 148 Ĥijrī) has said, ‘I once passed through a neighbourhood. At the end of it was a graveyard. After Ṣalāt-ul-‘Aṣr, a grave split open and a man came out of it with his head like that of a donkey and the rest of his body like that of a human. He brayed thrice, and went back into the grave. The grave then got closed.
An old lady sitting nearby was spinning yarn. Another lady asked me: Do you see that old woman? I asked, ‘Who is she?’ She said, ‘The old lady is the mother of the one in the grave. He