Maintaining family ties with a disbelieving father for one who has embraced Islam
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This is a female questioner from France who says: Is it permissible for me to sever family ties with my father? He has done something great and moral with me, knowing that he is a disbeliever, and I have embraced Islam. Is it permissible for me to sever his ties?
Answer:
No, be kind to him. One is kind to a disbelieving father and a disbelieving mother.[Luqman 31:15]. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This is a female questioner from France who says: Is it permissible for me to sever family ties with my father? He has done something great and moral with me, knowing that he is a disbeliever, and I have embraced Islam. Is it permissible for me to sever his ties?
Answer:
No, be kind to him. One is kind to a disbelieving father and a disbelieving mother.
but accompany them in [this] world with appropriate kindness and follow the way of those who turn back to Me
وَصَاحِبْهُمَا فِي الدُّنْيَا مَعْرُوفًا وَاتَّبِعْ سَبِيلَ مَنْ أَنَابَ إِلَيَّ
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 07-07-1439هـ — alfawzan.live (59:52)
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