Ahmed Raza Khan: Mohammed Aqib Qadri:
And We have commanded man to be good towards
parents; his mother bore him with hardship, and delivered him with hardship;
and carrying him and weaning him is for thirty months; until when he *
reached maturity and became forty years of age, he said, "My Lord! Inspire
me to be thankful for the favours you bestowed upon me and my parents,
and that I may perform the deeds pleasing to You, and keep merit among
my offspring; I have inclined towards you and I am a Muslim." (* This verse
was revealed concerning S. Abu Bakr - the first caliph, R. A. A)