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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on not attending a wedding feast due to the presence of what is wrong

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The questioner:
The questioner asks: Is it permissible to not attend a wedding feast on a regular basis because of the presence of what is wrong?

The Shaykh:
Is it?

The questioner:
Is it to not attend the wedding feast on a regular basis?

The Shaykh:
Not holding the feast, or not attending the feast.

The questioner:
But what is meant is probably not attending.

The Shaykh:
That is, breaking the rule of not attending. If it contains what is wrong, do not attend it unless you are able to remove the wrong. If you are not able, do not attend it, if his intention is to attend the feast. But if his intention is to not hold the feast, then that is abandoning the Sunnah. The feast is not obligatory, but it is a confirmed Sunnah, so it is not abandoned except by the one who is unable, the one who is unable
Allah does not charge a soul except [with that within] its capacityلَا يُكَلِّفُ اللَّهُ نَفْسًا إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا
[Al-Baqarah 2:286]
. But the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said
Give a feast, even if it is with a sheepأولم ولو بشر أمر بها
. The one who is able performs the Sunnah and does not steal, he performs the Sunnah and does not steal. Because some people either make the feast one of extravagance and waste, or they do not make anything. This is wrong, even if it is better than the wrong. The middle is the good. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source بلوغ المرام [11] — alfawzan.live (59:36)

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