The Ruling on Calling Out to an Absent Living Person to Scare Children
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success! Is a person calling out to an absent living person, such as a woman who wants to scare her children by saying, "O so-and-so," intending the father to frighten her children while he is absent so that the children will calm down, is this considered shirk (associating partners with Allah)?
Answer:
It is not good. I say this is not good: calling out to absent people. Yes, it is not good. Do not call out to absent people, because this leads to shirk in the future, or it raises children to call out to absent people. It raises them by frightening them and instilling fear in their hearts, and they grow up with this fear of other than Allah. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success! Is a person calling out to an absent living person, such as a woman who wants to scare her children by saying, "O so-and-so," intending the father to frighten her children while he is absent so that the children will calm down, is this considered shirk (associating partners with Allah)?
Answer:
It is not good. I say this is not good: calling out to absent people. Yes, it is not good. Do not call out to absent people, because this leads to shirk in the future, or it raises children to call out to absent people. It raises them by frightening them and instilling fear in their hearts, and they grow up with this fear of other than Allah. Yes.
Source
شرح قرة عيون الموحدين في تحقيق دعوة الأنبياء والمرسلين، باب تفسير التوحيد وشهادة أن لا إله إلا الله — islamhouse.com (1:02:20)
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