The Ruling on Severing Ties with One’s Aunt Due to Harm
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Question:
Your Eminence, Shaykh Salih, may Allah preserve you and bless you. I begin this episode with a question from a caller who sent it in. He says: I am Abu Muhammad, may Allah reward you with good and make our destination and yours Paradise. Shaykh, may Allah preserve you, is there a sin on me if I sever ties with my aunt, my father’s sister, because I was harmed by her? She caused a rift between me and my first wife, and she divorced him because of the fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). Now I have married a second wife, and she did the same thing she did before with the first wife. I rebuked her and severed ties with her, and I do not speak to her now. Is there a sin on me for that? Knowing that if I reach out to her, she will do the same thing she did before. Please guide us, may Allah preserve you.
Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. May Allah send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. I see that you should not sever ties with your aunt, but rather maintain contact with her, based on the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): “Maintain your kinship ties, even if they sever ties with you; you are fulfilling what is required of you, and her sin is upon her.” There is no doubt that tolerance is among the causes of love, bringing affection, and removing what may be in the hearts of some people toward others of hatred. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence the Shaykh
Your Eminence, Shaykh Salih, may Allah preserve you and bless you. I begin this episode with a question from a caller who sent it in. He says: I am Abu Muhammad, may Allah reward you with good and make our destination and yours Paradise. Shaykh, may Allah preserve you, is there a sin on me if I sever ties with my aunt, my father’s sister, because I was harmed by her? She caused a rift between me and my first wife, and she divorced him because of the fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). Now I have married a second wife, and she did the same thing she did before with the first wife. I rebuked her and severed ties with her, and I do not speak to her now. Is there a sin on me for that? Knowing that if I reach out to her, she will do the same thing she did before. Please guide us, may Allah preserve you.
Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. May Allah send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. I see that you should not sever ties with your aunt, but rather maintain contact with her, based on the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): “Maintain your kinship ties, even if they sever ties with you; you are fulfilling what is required of you, and her sin is upon her.” There is no doubt that tolerance is among the causes of love, bringing affection, and removing what may be in the hearts of some people toward others of hatred. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence the Shaykh
Source
قناة «إذاعة القرآن الكريم»، نور على الدرب مع معالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان ح7499 — youtube.com (1:09)
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