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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Generation Gap The Exciting Words the Father My child! We have inherited from our fourth Imam, Ali b. Husain (as) a precious encyclopedia in the form of supplication and requests from Allah, by the name of al-Sahifah al-Sajjadiyyah. I am going to read to you a passage from this book on the topic of our discussion. I hope to draw your attention to some exciting words in connection with one's obligations to his father and mother.

The honourable Imam with much fear in his heart, sits in prayer in front of glory and majesty of Almighty Allah and in a humbling voice says: "O Lord, bless Muhammad, Thy servant and Thy Apostle and the holy people of his house. Distinguish, O Lord, my parents with excellence before Thee and grace from Thee, O Most Merciful! O Lord, bless Muhammad and his descendants. Acquaint me by inspiration with the knowledge of what is due unto them from me. Collect for me the complete knowldge of all this.

Cause me to act according to what Thou reveal to me by inspiration. Give me grace to penetrate into such of this knowleges as Thou teach me till I omit to perform nothing Thou has taught me. Do not let my limbs grow heavy (so as to prevent them) from the discharge of what Thou reveal unto me. O Lord, bless Muhammad and his descendants as Thou hast exalted us with him. Favour Muhammad and his descendant as Thou has given us claims upon Thy creation bexause of him.

Make me fear my parents as I would fear a despotic ruler and love them with the tenderness of an indulgent mother. Let me obedience to my parents and beneficence to them be sweeter to my eyes than sleep is to the drowsy, cooler to my beast than drinking water is to the thirsty, till I give prefrence to their wishes over mine and precedence to the satisfaction of their needs over mine.

Let me over-value their benevolence to me, even in small things and under-value my beneficence to them, even in great things. O Lord, let me lower my voice for them. Let my speech be agrrable to them Soften my conduct towards them. Let my heart be kind to them. Make me tender and lenient unto them both. O Lord, reward them for bringing me up. Recompense them for loving me. Guard them as they guarded me in the my infancy.