Advice for a mother suffering from obsessive fear for her children
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Question:
This questioner says: I ask Your Eminence, the Shaykh, Shaykh Salih, to guide my sister. She has some obsessive fear; she has three children and is afraid for them. She does not take them on outings or take them to visit her relatives, and she says, “I fear that the evil eye will strike them.”
Answer:
It is not prescribed to have such intense fear that the children will be harmed. This places a burden on the person. One should trust in Allah the Exalted, supplicate for their safety and guidance, keep them away from gatherings of evil and the company of people of evil, and raise them with good, Shari'ah-based upbringing. This is what is required of him. Yes.
This questioner says: I ask Your Eminence, the Shaykh, Shaykh Salih, to guide my sister. She has some obsessive fear; she has three children and is afraid for them. She does not take them on outings or take them to visit her relatives, and she says, “I fear that the evil eye will strike them.”
Answer:
It is not prescribed to have such intense fear that the children will be harmed. This places a burden on the person. One should trust in Allah the Exalted, supplicate for their safety and guidance, keep them away from gatherings of evil and the company of people of evil, and raise them with good, Shari'ah-based upbringing. This is what is required of him. Yes.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/120 — archive.org (10:29)
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