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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on families gathering on the second day of the festival

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Question:
The questioner says: Some large families have agreed to designate the second day of the festival for gathering, seeing one another, cooperating with each other, and helping the poor. He asks: What is the ruling on attending these gatherings?

Answer:
If this is the intention—the intention of getting acquainted, helping the poor, and maintaining family ties—there is no harm in doing so on the second day of the festival, on the day of the festival, or after it. However, if the intention behind this is tribalism and division among the Muslims, with each tribe staying by itself and not looking at the others, then this is not permissible. This is one of the matters of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance.
The Muslims are all brothers, brothers from every tribe, every race, and every color.
So if the intention of the gathering is tribalism, or rather racialism as they call it, and leaving out the others and not accepting the others, then this is not permissible. But if the intention is communication, mutual compassion, and getting acquainted, then there is no harm in it. Yes.
Source مجالس رمضان 1431هـ - 03 — alfawzan.live (36:23)

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

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