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In The Name of ALLAH, The Entirely

Merciful, The Especially Merciful


Peace and blessings of ALLAH be
upon our prophet, Mohammad
'O Lord, he said "Ya Rabb! Lakal-
hamdu kama yanbagi li-jalali
Wajhika wa li'azima sultanika (O
Lord, to You is praise as befits
the Glory of Your Face and the
greatness of your Might).'
Old People
By:
Dalia Elsayed
English course at RSH
Part of our contacts
How can we find them?
“Rights and Duties”
To navigate any issue, we have to search for the Islamic
basis of it to measure the correctness of our acts.

We have two main bases that we will start out from


them; those are the Holy Quran and the Noble Sunnah.
 First base is from the Holy Koran. ALLAH, the
Almighty, said:
ً َ ْ ْ َ َ ْ َ ُ َ َ ُ ُ ْ َ َ َ َ ُّ َ َ َ َ
23 ‫» أّلٰرساأ‬.....‫ن ِأحسانا‬
ٰ ِ ‫ك أ ّٰل تعبدوأ ِأ ّٰل ِأيا ٰه و ِبالوأ ِلدي‬
ٰ ‫«وقضىٰ رب‬
 Second base is the Noble Sunnah. Our Prophet
Mohammad, peace and blessings be upon him said:
َْ ‫ ْفَلَي‬،‫يرنَا‬
).‫س ِمنا‬ ِ ‫ َويَعْ ِرفْ َحقْ َك ِب‬،‫يرنَا‬ َ ْ‫( َمنْ لَمْ يَر َحم‬
َ ‫ص ِغ‬
‫صحيح األلباني‬
"Anyone who does not show mercy to our children nor
acknowledge the right of our old people is not one of us."
We can conclude rights and duties from Islamic law.

Rights and Duties

Old people have We carry the duty


the right to live to help the people
dignified life in need, as possible
Who is the first one that must help?
According to the Holy Koran and the noble Sunnah, we
are contacting two main types of old people.

 First type includes our parents.


 Second type includes other old people, i.e. relatives
or non-relatives.
So, we can classify old people as follows:
Old People
Needs

Do not have
Have sons
sons

Care Money Treatment House

Physical Moral Foods Drinks Clothes


SONS are the first people must take care of their parents.

ALLAH, the Almighty, has decreed to parents, good


treatment.
SONS
Because that not all old people have sons, then the
responsibility may move to relatives then non-relatives,
respectively, as a care giver.
Relatives have the priority dealing in Benevolence over
non-relatives.

Also, in Islamic society, people of non-relatives must take


care of each others. So, non-relatives comes in the next
level of united society.
We can summarize the priority in roles towards old
people,

Relatives
SONS and Non-
relatives

SONS
SONS

SONS

Relatives

Non-relatives

Civil work

Governmental level
By applying this rule mutually,
 In your close circle:
Take care of your parents and their needs

 In your medium circle:


Do good with your relative old people

 In your larger circle:


You can search for non-relative old people
So, you will absorb the Islamic rules, then translate it in
your actions using the available tools in your time, and
according the conditions around you.

Remember that, Act and its tools must be all Halal.


How can you find old people of non-
relatives?
Non-relatives
old people

In home Out home


Out home

In old age home In street

Collect
Perform survey
information

Ministry of Personal
Phone directory
Social Solidarity observation
Finally, help and source of funding
Non-material help
(Time- Effort)

Material help
(Money- Foods- Drinks- Clothes- Tools

Personal funding (even little)

Collection of Sadaqat from relatives and friends (small-scale)

If on official level, donations can be collected in large-scale (from other


people- companies- businessmen- through Internet…etc.)
‫‪Resources:‬‬
‫ألقاأن ألكايم •‬
‫ألسنة ألنبوية •‬
‫موقع أّلرسالم •‬
‫‪www.al-islam.com‬‬
‫موقع ألسنة •‬
‫‪https://sunnah.com/adab/18‬‬
May ALLAH Rewards you

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