When Your Parents Start Getting Older...

Yasir QadhiJune 23, 202671 min0 comments

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Practical Islamic Living Parents & Filial Piety Death & Afterlife Aging & Elder Care Family Qadar Quran Taqwa

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In this deeply personal and candid lecture, delivered just days after the passing of his own father, Sheikh Yasir Qadhi addresses one of the most emotionally and practically overlooked topics in Muslim communities: what happens when aging parents need their children to step up and become the caregivers. Drawing on Quranic verses, prophetic teachings, and raw firsthand experience, he outlines seven essential points — from building adult relationships with parents and learning health literacy, to navigating legal documents, financial realities, and the painful emotional journey of role reversal. This lecture is essential viewing for any Muslim adult with living parents.

Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi is one of the most influential Islamic scholars and intellectuals in the Western world. Born in Houston to Pakistani parents, he earned a degree in chemical engineering before studying for ten years at the Islamic University of Madinah, where he completed degrees in hadith and Islamic theology, and later earned a PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University. He served for years as Dean of Academic Affairs at AlMaghrib Institute, taught at Rhodes College in Memphis, and now serves as Dean of the Islamic Seminary of America and resident scholar of the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) in Texas. His lecture series on the seerah, "Lives of the Sahaba," and Islamic theology are among the most comprehensive in the English language.

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