The ruling on saying: “By the mercy of your parents” or “For your face’s sake”
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Question:
This questioner says: Your Eminence the Shaykh, I love you for the sake of Allah, and I hope for an answer to these two questions. The first is: What is the ruling when a person asks another and says to him, “By the mercy of your parents” or “For your face’s sake,” knowing that this is very widespread among people?
Answer:
This is a colloquial expression. “By the mercy of your parents” or “For your face’s sake,” or “I am in your face,” means: save me from such-and-such, I am coming to you, save me from your son or your brother or such-and-such; that is, he seeks refuge with him from a person who is harming him. If he is capable and says, “I seek your help to save me from your son or your servant,” there is nothing wrong with that, just as Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Qasas 28:15] something, so he did not return to the story of Musa. A person comes to you and says, “I am seeking refuge with you,” or “I am under your protection from your uncle, or your father, or your son, or your servant,” and he is able to do so, there is nothing wrong with that, just as Allah the Exalted said. So he sought help from Allah against something, or I ask you to give me such-and-such by the mercy of your parents, meaning that I am invoking mercy for your parents. It is a poor expression from the common person; “by the mercy of your parents” means that I am invoking mercy for your parents, or that you will have mercy on your parents and give it to me. You have mercy on your parents, seeking nearness to Him through His mercy for them, or through your love for your son. He asks you, and this does no harm. But you say, “My brother, do me a favor, may Allah reward you with good,” these are good expressions. He says to you, “By the mercy of your parents,” meaning I ask you to give me [something] as a mercy for your parents, or even that I invoke mercy for your parents, or even that you have mercy on your parents by doing so. These are colloquial expressions with clear meanings.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good,
This questioner says: Your Eminence the Shaykh, I love you for the sake of Allah, and I hope for an answer to these two questions. The first is: What is the ruling when a person asks another and says to him, “By the mercy of your parents” or “For your face’s sake,” knowing that this is very widespread among people?
Answer:
This is a colloquial expression. “By the mercy of your parents” or “For your face’s sake,” or “I am in your face,” means: save me from such-and-such, I am coming to you, save me from your son or your brother or such-and-such; that is, he seeks refuge with him from a person who is harming him. If he is capable and says, “I seek your help to save me from your son or your servant,” there is nothing wrong with that, just as Allah the Exalted said:
And he entered the city at a time of inattention by its people and found therein two men fighting: one from his faction and one from among his enemy. And the one from his faction called for help to him against the one from his enemy, so Moses struck him and [unintentionally] killed him. [Moses] said, "This is from the work of Satan. Indeed, he is a manifest, misleading enemy."
فَاسْتَغَاثَهُ الَّذِي مِنThe presenter:
May Allah reward you with good,
Source
فتاوى المسجد الحرام (شعبان ١٤١٧ هـ) - ١ — archive.org (39:35)
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