Is it permissible for me to cut off ties with my family for more than a year due to financial circumstances
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The first question of Fatwa number ( 13976 )
Q1: Is it permissible for me to cut off ties with my family for more than a year; due to my financial circumstances?
A1: Allah, Mighty and Majestic, commanded maintaining family ties and forbade cutting them off. He the Exalted said:[Al-Isra 17:23] And He the Exalted said: [An-Nahl 16:90] And He the Exalted said: [Muhammad 47:22-23] Maintaining family ties is done through visiting, greeting, providing financial assistance to those in need among them, and inquiring about their conditions. However, if a person is unable to visit
due to the distance of his family's country and his lack of means, there is no blame on him for not traveling to them, provided he maintains ties through correspondence and whatever other means of connection he is able to do. And success is from Allah, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and his Companions.
Q1: Is it permissible for me to cut off ties with my family for more than a year; due to my financial circumstances?
A1: Allah, Mighty and Majestic, commanded maintaining family ties and forbade cutting them off. He the Exalted said:
And your Lord has decreed that you not worship except Him, and to parents, good treatment
وَقَضَى رَبُّكَ أَلا تَعْبُدُوا إِلا إِيَّاهُ وَبِالْوَالِدَيْنِ إِحْسَانًاIndeed, Allah orders justice and good conduct and giving to relatives
إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَأْمُرُ بِالْعَدْلِ وَالإِحْسَانِ وَإِيتَاءِ ذِي الْقُرْبَى(22) So would you perhaps, if you turned away, cause corruption on earth and sever your [ties of] relationship? (23) Those [who do so] are the ones that Allah has cursed, so He deafened them and blinded their vision.
فَهَلْ عَسَيْتُمْ إِنْ تَوَلَّيْتُمْ أَنْ تُفْسِدُوا فِي الأَرْضِ وَتُقَطِّعُوا أَرْحَامَكُمْ (22) أُولَئِكَ الَّذِينَ لَعَنَهُمُ اللَّهُ فَأَصَمَّهُمْ وَأَعْمَى أَبْصَارَهُمْdue to the distance of his family's country and his lack of means, there is no blame on him for not traveling to them, provided he maintains ties through correspondence and whatever other means of connection he is able to do. And success is from Allah, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and his Companions.
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