Fiqh of the family

Is talking back to parents Haram?

16 Mar

ANSWER: Of course! This is absolutely prohibited and a major sin and one of the means of going directly to hell. One can discuss with them different issues providing you are dutiful and respectful.

Allah Curses those who sever ties of kinship – Sheikh Assim Al Hakeem

Fiqh of the family, Videos

15 Mar

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Sheikh my sister is asking for IPhone from my parents, and they are not buying her phone because they can’t afford it. Due to this her behaviour has changed, my father lives in ….., she doesn’t even talk to him, he ask us to give her phone but she refuses to talk. This hurts my parents alot, specially my mother. Whenever I try to talk to her she becomes more angry. Please help me what to do?

Fiqh of the family

08 Mar

ANSWER: She is a spoiled brat! Such a reaction is not normal unless she wants it for a shady reason. Her parents must not adhere to her demands until she becomes an obedient and dutiful daughter. She is sinful for cutting ties with her parents for something as little as a phone. You must advise […]

If a parent cursed their child, cause they were disobedience, can the child repent (grown up ) and ask allah to forgive them and same as for the parent can they ask allah to remove the curse ?

Fiqh of the family

04 Mar

ANSWER: If the child was disobedient then he must ask his parents to forgive him now and he must repent to Allah as well. Yes, the parents can ask Allah to remove the curse and make lots of good duas for the child now.

It is sunnah as well as charity to put a morsel of food in one’s wife’s mouth. Elders in our family say this can only be done alone and not when you are having meals together as extended family or joint family. Kindly advise.

Commentary on Hadeeth, Fiqh of the family

24 Feb

ANSWER: The elders are right! One should do this only in privacy or when he is with his children and not in front of others.

My problem is I got married in 2018, my mum was happy with the marriage then after I got married she started to dislike my Husband and she keeps brainwashing he’s a badman but alhamdulillah he is great looks afters me. I went to Pakistan last year second time around I’m going in June mum has forbidden me. And she will disown me if I do please help.

Fiqh of the family

05 Feb

ANSWER: If your husband is a righteous and good man, then you must have no doubts about him, then you must not listen to your mother’s bad comments about your husband, and you must let her understand that he is your husband and you must obey him but not her. Be respectful with your mother, […]

Does a man have equal financial duty towards his wife & children and widowed mother?My brother does not give monthly pocket money to my mother for her expenses (she lives alone).In case he buys (say) a flight ticket for my mother, he cuts that amount & then gives her the balance monthly pocket money. She has no income of her own.He however pays for his wife&kids as required/is not stingy with them

Dealings and Attitudes with In-Laws, Fiqh of the family

04 Feb

ANSWER: He is obliged to spend on his wife and children and will be held accountable if he doesn’t. He must serve his mother to the best of his ability is rewarded for whatever he spends on her, however, all of her children are equally required to do that. It seems he is trying to […]

My father commits many sins (gossiping, cursing, smoking, wasing time on his laptop 24/7 movies, women, Fb) but when I try to advise him he gets angry and he doesn’t allow me to speak. I heard from another Shaikh that one shouldn’t sit with his/her parents when they are engaged in sins, but my dad is constantly smoking, on his laptop and sometimes gossips, does that mean I can’t sit with him?

Fiqh of the family

20 Jan

ANSWER: You must not openly talk to him or “advise’ him like this as he’s your father and you’re not his mother! His getting angry at you is natural. You can send beneficial authentic Islamic videos prohibiting such sins but just randomly in groups that you both are in, without hinting that you’re sending these […]