The Wind-Curved Sandhills
46. Al-'Aḥqāf
الأحقاف

al-Aḥqāf (The Sandhills)

ٱلْأَحْقَاف

46:15
46:15

wa-waṣṣaynā l-ʾinsāna bi-wālidayhi ʾiḥsānan ḥamalathu ʾummuhū kurhan wa-waḍaʿathu kurhan wa-ḥamluhū wa-fiṣāluhū thalāthūna shahran ḥattā ʾidhā balagha ʾashuddahū wa-balagha ʾarbaʿīna sanatan qāla rabbi ʾawziʿnī ʾan ʾashkura niʿmataka llatī ʾanʿamta ʿalayya wa-ʿalā wālidayya wa-ʾan ʾaʿmala ṣāliḥan tarḍāhu wa-ʾaṣliḥ dhurriyyatī ʾinnī tubtu ʾilayka wa-ʾinnī mina l-muslimīna

We have enjoined man to be kind to his parents. His mother has carried him in travail, and bore him in travail, and his gestation and weaning take thirty months. When he comes of age and reaches forty years, he says, ‘My Lord! Inspire me to give thanks for Your blessing with which You have blessed me and my parents, and that I may do righteous deeds which please You, and invest my descendants with righteousness. Indeed I have turned to you in penitence, and I am one of the Muslims.’

Ali Quli Qarai