The father's excuse for his inability to take his children from their mother
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: I have children from a woman whom I have divorced. I tried to take my children through the court, but I was unable to do so. Please note that she has provided them with a television and enrolled them in coeducational universities. He asks: Does my request for them through the court and my inability to obtain them constitute an excuse for me before Allah?
Answer:
And so on, and she does such and such. The court looks into this. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: I have children from a woman whom I have divorced. I tried to take my children through the court, but I was unable to do so. Please note that she has provided them with a television and enrolled them in coeducational universities. He asks: Does my request for them through the court and my inability to obtain them constitute an excuse for me before Allah?
Answer:
And so on, and she does such and such. The court looks into this. Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، الباب التاسع في طهارة القلب من أدرانه وأنجاسه — islamhouse.com (1:04:45)
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