What is better for voluntary charity: the parents or the poor?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: What is better regarding voluntary charity, for a person to give charity to his parents or to poor strangers?
Answer:
Charity to a needy relative is better, meaning it is two things: maintaining family ties and charity. As for the parents, it is obligatory for the son to provide for them; it is not charity. No, he is required to provide for them from his wealth. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: What is better regarding voluntary charity, for a person to give charity to his parents or to poor strangers?
Answer:
Charity to a needy relative is better, meaning it is two things: maintaining family ties and charity. As for the parents, it is obligatory for the son to provide for them; it is not charity. No, he is required to provide for them from his wealth. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 20-04-1437هـ — alfawzan.live (57:13)
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