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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Is it permissible to go to help relatives on the wedding day and not attend the celebration because of the wrongdoings in it?

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The questioner:
Yes, yes. If a marriage takes place for our relatives, with celebrations and bid'ah (religious innovations), do we go to help them with the work, especially for that occasion, and leave when the celebration begins, or do we not go at all? If a marriage takes place for our relatives, with celebrations and bid'ah (religious innovations), do we go to help them with the work specific to that occasion, and leave when the celebration begins, or do we not go at all?

The Shaykh:
In a marriage, one helps with what is permissible. One helps the husband with the mahr (bridal gift), helping him with what facilitates the marriage and supports him in the marriage. If something wrong occurs at the time of the gathering, one advises them. If it happens when the women are gathered or the men are gathered and they do something wrong, one advises them at that time. One prevents it if a person is able to prevent it; otherwise, one advises them. Cooperation in marriage is a must. It is an important matter. Cooperation in marriage, facilitating the affairs of marriage, this is important. But if wrongdoings occur in the wedding celebration, whether at the entry or at any time when wrong is done, that is the place for forbidding the wrong. One forbids the wrong. Marriage is a religious matter and an act of worship, and one helps with it. And one forbids the wrong among the women and among the men. Yes.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 217 هل يجوز الذهاب لمساعدة الأقارب يوم الزفاف وعدم حضور الحفل لما فيه من المنكرات؟ للإمام ابن باز — youtube.com

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