Explaining Kind Speech with Family
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Question:
Another questioner, whose name is Abu Ahmad, asks: What is obligatory for the Muslim man and woman? Or he asks: How should a man be kind to his family with kind speech? And what is included in kind speech? May Allah reward you.
Answer:
Kind speech is well known; it is gentle speech and speech that brings joy to people. [Allah] (Mighty and Majestic) says: "And speak to people what is good." It is also speech that moves the one being called to Allah the Exalted to[Taha 20:44] and to fear. Kind speech includes supplication, and the greatest of that is offering the salam to those you know and those you do not know. There are many types of kind speech. Yes.
Another questioner, whose name is Abu Ahmad, asks: What is obligatory for the Muslim man and woman? Or he asks: How should a man be kind to his family with kind speech? And what is included in kind speech? May Allah reward you.
Answer:
Kind speech is well known; it is gentle speech and speech that brings joy to people. [Allah] (Mighty and Majestic) says: "And speak to people what is good." It is also speech that moves the one being called to Allah the Exalted to
And speak to him with gentle speech that perhaps he may be reminded
فَقُولَا لَهُ قَوْلًا لَّيِّنًا لَّعَلَّهُ يَتَذَكَّرُ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، نور على الدرب 246 من المجموعة الثالثة للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (8:08)
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