Pessimism regarding the wife, the mount, and the house
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The questioner:
He feels that Allah will divorce you. Are there cases in which it is permissible to be pessimistic about a son, a wife, a mount, or a neighbor?
The Shaykh:
This was mentioned in a hadith The Imam Ibn Taymiyyah said that the meaning of this is that Allah may create things among the created beings that contain evil, there is no doubt about that. Therefore, He the Exalted and Majestic says in Surat [Al-Falaq 113:1-2] So there are evil created beings that may be in the mount, may be in the house, or may be in the wife. These are great matters. If a person finds something among these things that he does not like in associating with them, he avoids them. Does this mean bad belief or taking an omen? No, taking an omen is not permissible. But if he knows from these three things something that he dislikes and is certain of it, then these are among the things that contain evil, so he avoids them, yes, just as a person avoids secrets and gatherings of secrets in order to be safe from their evil. Yes.
He feels that Allah will divorce you. Are there cases in which it is permissible to be pessimistic about a son, a wife, a mount, or a neighbor?
The Shaykh:
This was mentioned in a hadith
If there is any pessimism, it is in three things: the wife, the mount, and the house,
إن كان الشؤم ففي ثلاث، الزوج والدابة والدار،of daybreak (2) From the evil of that which He created
الْفَلَقِ مِن شَرِّ مَا خَلَقَ
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شرح مسائل الجاهلية [14] — alfawzan.live (1:10:26)
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