We have advised the human being to be kind to his parents; his mother bore him with hardship and delivered him while suffering a great deal of pain. The period in which his mother bore and weaned him lasted for thirty months. When he grew-up to manhood and became forty years old, he then said, "Lord, inspire me to give You thanks for the bounties you have granted to me and my parents, and to act righteously to please You. Lord, make my offspring virtuous. Lord I turn to you in repentance; I am a Muslim".
و به انسان سفارش کرده‌ایم که در حق پدر و مادرش نیکی کند [چرا که‌] مادرش به دشواری او را آبستن بوده و به دشواری او را زاده است، و [دوران‌] بارگرفتن و از شیر گرفتن او سی‌ماه است، تا آنکه به کمال رشدش برسد و به چهل‌سالگی برسد گوید پروردگارا مرا توفیق ده که نعمتی را که بر من و بر پدر و مادرم ارزانی داشتی سپاس بگزارم، و کارهای شایسته‌ای کنم که آن را بپسندی، و زاد و رود مرا نیز به صلاح‌آور، من به درگاه تو توبه کرده‌ام و من از مسلمانانم‌