I am 75 years old. A couple of years ago, I told my son that he could have my business.

Answer

Children of this age are signs of Qiyaamah. It is indeed heart-breaking that a son who was reared and nourished with care, love and sacrifice since infancy, and whose father allowed him to operate in his (the father's) business as if he was the owner, today turning against his own father and treacherously baring his poisonous fangs.

Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) told a person that "you and your wealth, all belong to your father." Nabi-e-Kareem (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) also said: "Your father is your central door to Jannat. Now if you want to destroy it (by causing him grief) then do so, and if you want to guard it (with obedience and pleasing him), then do so."

Children do not realize that displeasure caused to their parents can lead to an evil Maut. Among the signs of Qiyaamah mentioned by Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) is that " a son will bring his friends close to him, and distance himself from his father." This evil of causing grief to parents has become universal in this age. Children, due to their secular education and emulation of the western cult of life become strangers to their parents. Like their kuffaar counterparts who assign their aged parents to the dumps of homes for the aged, even Muslim children are increasingly becoming strangers to those whom Allah Ta'ala has appointed to be the medium for their entry into the earth and for their rearing, nourishing and sustainment.

If children do not take heed of the miserable, treacherous conduct they display towards their aged parents, they will rue the day they were born and eternally lament and regret when Malakul Maut will violently extract their souls for onward transmission into Sijjeen (the Hell for evil souls during the sojourn of Barzakh).

Your son and others of his ilk should reflect on the following warning of Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam): "Verily, the pleasure of Allah is in the pleasure of your father, and the wrath of Allah is in the wrath of your father."