The Ruling on Visiting Relatives Who Insist on Doing What Is Wrong
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Question:
Also, among the questions that have come to us, this questioner says: If I have relatives who do not pray and openly commit what is wrong in their homes, and I am unable to forbid them from it, is it obligatory for me to visit them?
Answer:
If your brothers are doing what is wrong, or if you have relatives who are doing what is wrong, then visiting them for the sake of forbidding them from it and advising them is good. So you visit them to forbid the evil and give advice. If they respond, praise be to Allah. If they persist in their falsehood, then you boycott them and do not visit them.
Because they do not deserve a visit as long as they are engaged in the apparent wrongs, such as abandoning the prayers or similar apparent sins. Abandoning the prayer is disbelief and greater than the major sins. So the one in this state who commits these wrongs, such as abandoning the prayers, is not visited except for the sake of advice, if the advice is of benefit to him. He is visited, advised, and directed to good. If he responds, praise be to Allah. If he does not respond, then he is left and not visited thereafter. He is boycotted until Allah guides him. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Also, among the questions that have come to us, this questioner says: If I have relatives who do not pray and openly commit what is wrong in their homes, and I am unable to forbid them from it, is it obligatory for me to visit them?
Answer:
If your brothers are doing what is wrong, or if you have relatives who are doing what is wrong, then visiting them for the sake of forbidding them from it and advising them is good. So you visit them to forbid the evil and give advice. If they respond, praise be to Allah. If they persist in their falsehood, then you boycott them and do not visit them.
Because they do not deserve a visit as long as they are engaged in the apparent wrongs, such as abandoning the prayers or similar apparent sins. Abandoning the prayer is disbelief and greater than the major sins. So the one in this state who commits these wrongs, such as abandoning the prayers, is not visited except for the sake of advice, if the advice is of benefit to him. He is visited, advised, and directed to good. If he responds, praise be to Allah. If he does not respond, then he is left and not visited thereafter. He is boycotted until Allah guides him. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Source
قناة «إذاعة القرآن الكريم»، نور على الدرب مع معالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان ح7548 — youtube.com (9:44)
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