The ruling on responding to mistreatment with mistreatment toward relatives
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Question:
This questioner, the mother of Murad, asks: What is the ruling on responding to mistreatment with mistreatment? If some of my relatives have mistreated me and my children, how should I deal with them, given that they are relatives?
Answer:
Responding to mistreatment with an equivalent amount of mistreatment is permissible; this is retaliation. Allah the Exalted said that the punishment for evil is equivalent evil, but forgiveness is better.[Ash-Shuraa 42:40] Especially since these people who mistreated you are relatives, they have the right to family ties. So forgive them, fulfill what you owe them, and they will bear what they owe. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
This questioner, the mother of Murad, asks: What is the ruling on responding to mistreatment with mistreatment? If some of my relatives have mistreated me and my children, how should I deal with them, given that they are relatives?
Answer:
Responding to mistreatment with an equivalent amount of mistreatment is permissible; this is retaliation. Allah the Exalted said that the punishment for evil is equivalent evil, but forgiveness is better.
but whoever pardons and makes reconciliation - his reward is [due] from Allah. Indeed, He
فَمَنْ عَفَا وَأَصْلَحَ فَأَجْرُهُ عَلَى اللَّهِ إِنَّهُ لَاThe presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، برنامج (فتاوى) (078) لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان بتاريخ [1436-02-11] - كبار العلماء — youtube.com (44:07)
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