Priority for certain social duties over devotional duties

Priority of service to parents over direct service to God

"Should anyone give you a choice between the opportunity to render a service to Me and a service to them, choose ye to serve them, and let such service be a path leading you to Me. This is My exhortation and command unto thee. Observe therefore that which thy Lord, the Mighty, the Gracious, hath prescribed unto thee."

(Bahá'u'lláh: Family Life, A Compilation of the Universal House of Justice, in Lights of Guidance, no. 768)