Advice for one who wants to maintain ties with an innovating relative under the pressure of his wife
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: My wife’s maternal uncle is an innovator who travels to graves and recites a specific set of dhikr after the prayer. He says: My wife wants me to maintain ties with him, and the discussion between us intensified regarding the ruling on maintaining ties with him. What is your advice in this matter?
Answer:
If you want to maintain ties with him, advise him first. If he abandons what he is upon and accepts the advice, visit him and maintain ties with him. But if he persists, you must leave him and boycott him, and do not obey your wife in this.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: My wife’s maternal uncle is an innovator who travels to graves and recites a specific set of dhikr after the prayer. He says: My wife wants me to maintain ties with him, and the discussion between us intensified regarding the ruling on maintaining ties with him. What is your advice in this matter?
Answer:
If you want to maintain ties with him, advise him first. If he abandons what he is upon and accepts the advice, visit him and maintain ties with him. But if he persists, you must leave him and boycott him, and do not obey your wife in this.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، تابع فصل ثم إن في اتخاذ القبور أعيادًا من المفاسد العظيمة ... - 1 — islamhouse.com (47:00)
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