Question: How does Islam see older people?
Islam exalts older people and orders to honor, respect, and venerate them, this starts by the most important ones for man, father and mother, God addresses man everywhere and at all times:
“Don’t say to them a word of contempt, nor repel them, but address them in terms of honor.” Surat Al-Israa, Verse 23.
The prophet recommended caring about all people of old age, he (Blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: “He is not one of us (Muslims) that who doesn’t respect the olds amongst us or have mercy upon our young.” So the prophet (Blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) called to respect and venerate the old, he addressed young people by tactful intelligent words to make them eager to exalt old people, he (Blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: “Whenever a young man venerates an old man for his age, God gets him someone to venerate him when he is old.”
Among the great signs of Islam as it perfectly keeps others’ rights, it orders to care about old people of all religions, once Omar Ibn-Al-Khattab saw a Jewish old man begging people, he asked him why he does this, he said: (Tax and old age), Omar got angry and called the keeper of exchequer and told him to free that man and other older people from the tax and to give them a constant salary and he said to him: *(We never be just with him if we take his tax when he is young and not care about him when he is old.) and it was the first social assurance for old people in history.
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