QUESTION: Is it permissible to refuse dinner invitations to paternal relatives due to free-mixing? Male cousins stay in same room & enter anytime & women on both sides of the fam don’t observe niqab before in-laws or in village. Will I sin for cutting ties? How to maintain ties while protecting niqab when avoidance is impossible, as in village there is 0 privacy & anyone enters?
QUESTION: Is it permissible to refuse dinner invitations to paternal relatives due to free-mixing? Male cousins stay in same room & enter anytime & women on both sides of the fam don’t observe niqab before in-laws or in village. Will I sin for cutting ties? How to maintain ties while protecting niqab when avoidance is impossible, as in village there is 0 privacy & anyone enters?
05Nov
ANSWER:
Yes, it’s mandatory not to attend such free mixed gatherings, this is not severing the ties of kinship, rather it is abiding by Allah’s commands.
You can give them a heads up that this is not permissible and you can’t attend or invite them unless they respect the rules of segregation.
QUESTION: Is it permissible to refuse dinner invitations to paternal relatives due to free-mixing? Male cousins stay in same room & enter anytime & women on both sides of the fam don’t observe niqab before in-laws or in village. Will I sin for cutting ties? How to maintain ties while protecting niqab when avoidance is impossible, as in village there is 0 privacy & anyone enters?