The Wind-Curved Sandhills
46. Al-'Aḥqāf
الأحقاف
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وَوَصَّيْنَا
الْإِنسَانَ
بِوَالِدَيْهِ
إِحْسَانًا
حَمَلَتْهُ
أُمُّهُ
كُرْهًا
وَوَضَعَتْهُ
كُرْهًا
وَحَمْلُهُ
وَفِصَالُهُ
ثَلَاثُونَ
شَهْرًا
حَتَّى
إِذَا
بَلَغَ
أَشُدَّهُ
وَبَلَغَ
أَرْبَعِينَ
سَنَةً
قَالَ
رَبِّ
أَوْزِعْنِي
أَنْ
أَشْكُرَ
نِعْمَتَكَ
الَّتِي
أَنْعَمْتَ
عَلَيَّ
وَعَلَى
وَالِدَيَّ
وَأَنْ
أَعْمَلَ
صَالِحًا
تَرْضَاهُ
وَأَصْلِحْ
لِي
فِي
ذُرِّيَّتِي
إِنِّي
تُبْتُ
إِلَيْكَ
وَإِنِّي
مِنَ
الْمُسْلِمِينَ
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 lī fī 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
We have enjoined on man kindness to his parents: In pain did his mother bear him, and in pain did she give him birth. The carrying of the (child) to his weaning is (a period of) thirty months. At length, when he reaches the age of full strength and attains forty years, he says, "O my Lord! Grant me that I may be grateful for Thy favour which Thou has bestowed upon me, and upon both my parents, and that I may work righteousness such as Thou mayest approve; and be gracious to me in my issue. Truly have I turned to Thee and truly do I bow (to Thee) in Islam."
