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comes first. Well, I tell you both of them come first. You might say, what if there's a dispute?

Let me explain. The love that you have for your mother is very different from the love that you have for your wife.

Any mothers out there who are listening to me today, your son will love his wife so much, but that love is not stealing from yours,

not taking from you. He might not be able to spend as much time with you. Be happy for him. Be excited that he's getting along and moving on with his own life. Subhanallah.

And remember, he will always love you, Subhanallah. The same applies to the mothers of the daughters who have married.

However, when there is a dispute, who comes first? Justice comes first. Whether it's with your mother or whether it's with your wife.

Whoever is right, that is who we will stand by. But remember to navigate the waters with a lot of respect when you're correcting your mother?

You must correct her. You must stand up for justice. Listen to this verse.

Allah says, O you who believe, stand firm for justice for the sake of Allah. Stand firm for the sake of Allah. Be just.

For justice, we should be standing firm. In another verse, Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says,

Even if it is against yourselves, your parents or your relatives, you stand inside with justice.

This means, if it's against my mother or my father, I will stand with justice and not with my mother or father.

If it is against myself, I will stand for justice and not with my mother or father, not even with myself.

May Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala grant us an understanding. Many people fail because they allow their parents to trample over their spouses, claiming that that's my father, that's my mother.

Those are my parents. They gave birth to me. Please correct yourself, even in the eyes of Allah, that's wrong.

Look at Ibrahim Ali, his salam and so many of the messengers may peace be upon them when they corrected their parents because they were wrong.

They didn't say, you are my parents, so I cannot correct you. You correct them but be kind and respectful.

Notice when Allah speaks about parents in the Quran, instead of using the term obedience, he always uses the term kindness, be kind to your parents.

Ibrahim Ali, Daini, yes, Allah has declared you shall worship none besides him and you will be kind to your parents.

That verse happens to repeat itself with different wordings or that the meaning of it, SubhanAllah pointing at the same thing to say be kind to your parents.

But obedience is for Allah. Remember this. So if your mother is wrong and she's a human being, she will be wrong.

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