On the duty owed to ageing parents, immediately after the command not even to say 'fie' to them. 'Lower the wing' is the Quran's own image, of a bird settling its wing over its young. Palmer's numbering in this sura runs one ahead of the Kufan count.
Facts
Passage
TextAnd lower to them the wing of humility out of compassion, and say, 'O Lord! have compassion on them as they brought me up when I was little!' 1 ReferenceQuran 17:24 (Palmer 17:25) 1 Reference Scheme Translation
TranslationThe Qur'an (Sacred Books of the East, vols. 6 and 9) 1 Connections
Concerns
Sets the Quranic limit on how far filial duty extends.
Passage Of
Source The National Penal (Code) Act, 2017 (Muluki Aparadh Samhita, 2074)Parliament of Nepal
Sources
1. The Quran, Sacred Books of the East, volumes 6 and 9
E. H. Palmer (translator), Clarendon Press / Internet Sacred Text Archive, 1880Quran 17:24 (Palmer 17:25)View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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