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Both son and daughter have responsibility towards parents

Both son and daughter should take of their parents


If the parents need to be looked after, it is obligatory for all their children, whether male or female, to help them, either by doing this themselves or by hiring someone to do it.

As-Safaareeni said in Ghidha’ al-Albaab (1/390): Parents’ rights also include: serving or helping them if both of them, or one of them, needs that. End quote.

In al-Mawsoo‘ah al-Fiqhiyyah (19/39) it says: With regard to the child serving or helping his or her parent, or the parent asking his or her child to help him or her, that is permissible and there is no difference of scholarly opinion concerning that. In fact, this comes under the heading of honouring one’s parents that is enjoined in Islamic teachings, and it is obligatory for the child to take care of his or her parent, or to hire someone to do that, when needed. Hence it is not permissible for the child to charge a fee for doing that, because it is duty that is required of him or her, and in the case of one who does a duty that is required of him or her towards someone else, it is not permissible to charge a fee for this.

Ref: Islamqa.en/info

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