Warning children by mentioning the absent father
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Yes. The supplication that a person makes for an absent living person, such as when a woman wants to frighten her children by saying, "So-and-so," intending the father who is absent, in order to make the children quiet. Is this considered a form of shirk (associating partners with Allah)?
The Shaykh:
It is not good. I say this is not good. Calling upon the absent is not good. However, we will call upon the absent because this leads to shirk (associating partners with Allah) in the future, or it raises the children to supplicate to the absent. It raises them, frightens them, instills fear in their hearts, and they grow up with this fear of other than Allah.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Yes. The supplication that a person makes for an absent living person, such as when a woman wants to frighten her children by saying, "So-and-so," intending the father who is absent, in order to make the children quiet. Is this considered a form of shirk (associating partners with Allah)?
The Shaykh:
It is not good. I say this is not good. Calling upon the absent is not good. However, we will call upon the absent because this leads to shirk (associating partners with Allah) in the future, or it raises the children to supplicate to the absent. It raises them, frightens them, instills fear in their hearts, and they grow up with this fear of other than Allah.
Source
شرح قرة عيون الموحدين [10] — alfawzan.live (1:08:14)
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