وَإِذْ قَالَ لُقْمَـٰنُ لِٱبْنِهِۦ وَهُوَ يَعِظُهُۥ يَـٰبُنَىَّ لَا تُشْرِكْ بِٱللَّهِ ۖ إِنَّ ٱلشِّرْكَ لَظُلْمٌ عَظِيمٌ
Wa iz qaala luqmaanu libnihee wa huwa ya'izuhoo ya bunaiya laa tushrik billaah; innash shirka lazulmun 'azeem
اور (اُس وقت کو یاد کرو) جب لقمان نے اپنے بیٹے کو نصیحت کرتے ہوئے کہا کہ بیٹا خدا کے ساتھ شرک نہ کرنا۔ شرک تو بڑا (بھاری) ظلم ہے
And when Luqman said to his son, counseling him: "My dear son, ascribe no partner to God — to ascribe partners to him is a tremendous wrong."
Luqman is remembered as a sage given wisdom, and the first thing that wisdom produces in the surah is a word to his own child. The diminutive ya bunayya is tender address carrying the gravest warning, and zulm names a thing put where it does not belong. Two verses on, God's own voice limits obedience to parents at exactly this point, which quietly bounds the authority of the father speaking.