Hands of vested interests and lusts have played with Quran and distorted
words from their original location and those, who have written exegesis, whom
love had blinded and deafened and they move about like a blind camel [and
mixed the right and wrong] and like one, who gathers firewood in the night, in
their books, have narrated fictions, which fabricators in the past had fabricated;
and without any research and study regarded those reports as absolute truth, and
they think that they have performed a nice act, and in this way, have posed
themselves as authorities on sciences of Holy Quran, so much so that they have
said that the verse of:
وَوَصَّيْنَا ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ بِوَٰلِدَيْهِ إِحْسَـٰنًا ۖ حَمَلَتْهُ أُمُّهُۥ كُرْهًۭا وَوَضَعَتْهُ كُرْهًۭا ۖ وَحَمْلُهُۥ وَفِصَـٰلُهُۥ ثَلَـٰثُونَ شَهْرًا ۚ حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا بَلَغَ أَشُدَّهُۥ وَبَلَغَ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةًۭ قَالَ رَبِّ أَوْزِعْنِىٓ أَنْ أَشْكُرَ نِعْمَتَكَ ٱلَّتِىٓ أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَىَّ وَعَلَىٰ وَٰلِدَىَّ وَأَنْ أَعْمَلَ صَـٰلِحًۭا تَرْضَىٰهُ وَأَصْلِحْ لِى فِى ذُرِّيَّتِىٓ ۖ إِنِّى تُبْتُ إِلَيْكَ وَإِنِّى مِنَ ٱلْمُسْلِمِينَ (١٥)
“And We have enjoined on man doing of good to his parents;
with trouble did his mother bear him and with trouble did she
bring him forth; and the bearing of him and the weaning of him
was thirty months; until when he attains his maturity and
reaches forty years, he says: My Lord! grant me that I may give
thanks for Thy favor which Thou hast bestowed on me and on
my parents, and that I may do good which pleases Thee and do
good to me in respect of my offspring; surely I turn to Thee, and
surely I am of those who submit.”1
…is revealed about Abu Bakr.
They have narrated from Ali Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) and Ibne Abbas that:
This verse was revealed about Abu Bakr, and the period of his pregnancy and
weaning was thirty months; that is his mother bore him for nine months and
nursed him for twenty-one months. Both his parents embraced Islam and both his
parents were emigrants (Muhajireen) other than them – did not convert to Islam,
thus Almighty Allah commanded him to do good to those two and after this
command, he did a good turn to them.
When the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) was vested with prophethood at the
age of forty, Abu Bakr, who was aged thirty-six years, testified for His Eminence
and when he reached the age of forty, he said:
رَبِّ أَوْزِ عَنِى أَنْ أَشْكُرَ نِعْمَتَكَ الَّتِي أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَى وَعَلَى وَالِدَيَّ
“My Lord! grant me that I may give thanks for Thy favor which Thou hast bestowed on me and on my parents.”2
…and Almighty Allah answered his supplication and his parents and all his
children converted to Islam.
Is there no one, who can ask these foolish people, whether thirty months of
pregnancy and weaning, is restricted only for Abu Bakr that only he should be
named? Or this period is for all people in general?
In such a way that either the period of pregnancy is six months and the
period of weaning is twenty-four months or the period of pregnancy is nine
months and the period of weaning is twenty-one months. And if someone should
have this precedence it is the former, as it is not according to usual nature.
Furthermore, if this was the specialty of Abu Bakr and account of his
pregnancy and weaning, which Maula Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) and Ibne Abbas reason through this verse and the verse in Surah Luqman that minimum period of
pregnancy is six months as was mentioned previously?3