The Ruling on a Father Killing His Undutiful Son
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Question:
Peace be upon you, and Allah’s mercy and blessings. Your Excellency the Shaykh, may Allah reward you, benefit us with your knowledge, and prolong your life in His obedience. I ask your permission to present some questions. The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah reward you. A man has an undutiful son, and his father threatened him with death. If the father kills his son, will the son come on the Day of Resurrection like any other person? And does the severe warning regarding the intentional killing of a soul include a father who kills his son?
Answer:
Yes. Yes, it is forbidden for a father to kill his son, even if he gives him nothing, or if he wrongs him in his rights. It is forbidden for him to kill him. But the discussion is only about retaliation, not about the prohibition. The discussion is about retaliation: is retaliation carried out between a father and his son, or not?
As for the prohibition, there is no doubt that it is forbidden for a father to kill his son. This is a severing of family ties. Or, if the son was wronging his father, cutting off this relationship is a severing of family ties. And Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says:[Muhammad 47:22-23], and blinded their eyes. So it is a severing of family ties from one aspect, and it is the killing of a believer from another aspect, because the son is a believer. Even if he is undutiful, he is a believer. It is not permissible to kill a believer. A disobedient believer is not to be killed.
Peace be upon you, and Allah’s mercy and blessings. Your Excellency the Shaykh, may Allah reward you, benefit us with your knowledge, and prolong your life in His obedience. I ask your permission to present some questions. The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah reward you. A man has an undutiful son, and his father threatened him with death. If the father kills his son, will the son come on the Day of Resurrection like any other person? And does the severe warning regarding the intentional killing of a soul include a father who kills his son?
Answer:
Yes. Yes, it is forbidden for a father to kill his son, even if he gives him nothing, or if he wrongs him in his rights. It is forbidden for him to kill him. But the discussion is only about retaliation, not about the prohibition. The discussion is about retaliation: is retaliation carried out between a father and his son, or not?
As for the prohibition, there is no doubt that it is forbidden for a father to kill his son. This is a severing of family ties. Or, if the son was wronging his father, cutting off this relationship is a severing of family ties. And Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says:
(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
فَهَلْ عَسَيْتُمْ إِن تَوَلَّيْتُمْ أَن تُفْسِدُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَتُقَطِّعُوا أَرْحَامَكُمْ أُولَٰئِكَ الَّذِينَ لَعَنَهُمُ اللَّهُ فَأَصَمَّهُمْ
Source
قتل الوالد ولده العاق — alfawzan.live
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