Text copied Link copied

Al-Fatawa – home

﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

Scholar
Search mode

What is the reason for calling a person who has lost his father an orphan, but not one who has lost his mother?

Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. If a child loses his father before reaching puberty, he is considered an orphan, whereas if he loses his mother, even before reaching puberty, he is not called an orphan.

Answer:
Because the mother does not bear the responsibility for him or provide for his expenses, nor does she mean to raise him in the same way the father does. The father bears more responsibility than the mother. The father bears more than the mother in terms of pregnancy, breastfeeding, and upbringing, and the father also bears responsibility for upbringing and for providing for him. Each of the parents, in their care for the newborn, has performed a great deed.
and say, "My Lord, have mercy upon them as they brought me upوَقُل رَّبِّ ارْحَمْهُمَا كَمَا رَبَّيَانِي
[Al-Isra 17:24]
. Look at "as they raised me." It mentions that the father and mother raise the newborn, each according to his or her capacity. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [4148- 4717] ما السبب في تسمية من فقد والده يتيما دون من فقد والدته؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.

Flag this fatwa