How is the enmity of the wife and children toward the father, as Allah mentioned it in the Qur'an?
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Question:
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, a questioner asks: How is the enmity of the wife and children toward the father, as Allah mentioned it in the Qur'an?
Answer:
They discourage him from good and ask him for things that involve disobedience, and he complies with them. This is the enmity: that they discourage him from doing good, and that they may ask him for things that involve disobedience to Allah, and he grants them.[At-Taghabun 64:14], and [Al-Munafiqun 63:9] This is one aspect of the enmity. May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, he says: In our time today.
Especially in our time today, fathers often complain that their wives and children ask them to bring sins into the house, such as entertainment devices, satellite dishes, and the like. They say, "We are like everyone else." Why should you make us like everyone else?
They ask him to go out to the markets and mingle with men, saying, "We are like everyone else." They ask him to go to mixed gatherings that contain evil, and they say, "We are like everyone else." This is part of the enmity that Allah mentioned from them. Yes.
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, a questioner asks: How is the enmity of the wife and children toward the father, as Allah mentioned it in the Qur'an?
Answer:
They discourage him from good and ask him for things that involve disobedience, and he complies with them. This is the enmity: that they discourage him from doing good, and that they may ask him for things that involve disobedience to Allah, and he grants them.
indeed, among your wives and your children are enemies to you, so beware of them
إِنَّ مِنْ أَزْوَاجِكُمْ وَأَوْلَادِكُمْ عَدُوًّا لَّكُمْ فَاحْذَرُوهُمْlet not your wealth and your children divert you from remembrance of Allah
لَا تُلْهِكُمْ أَمْوَالُكُمْ وَلَا أَوْلَادُكُمْ عَن ذِكْرِ اللَّهِEspecially in our time today, fathers often complain that their wives and children ask them to bring sins into the house, such as entertainment devices, satellite dishes, and the like. They say, "We are like everyone else." Why should you make us like everyone else?
They ask him to go out to the markets and mingle with men, saying, "We are like everyone else." They ask him to go to mixed gatherings that contain evil, and they say, "We are like everyone else." This is part of the enmity that Allah mentioned from them. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، كيف تكون العداوة من الزوجة والأولاد للأب كما ذكر الله ذلك في القرآن؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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