Does the statement: “O you who believe, protect yourselves and your families from a Fire” include uncles, maternal uncles, and relatives?
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Regarding His saying, Glorified and Exalted is He:[At-Tahrim 66:6] Do the close relatives include the paternal uncles? He says: Do the paternal uncles, maternal uncles, and the rest of the relatives count as the family whom Allah commanded us to protect from the Fire?
Answer:
All Muslims are those whom Allah commanded us to protect from the Fire, but we start with the closest, then the next closest.[Ash-Shu'ara 26:214] [Taha 20:132] and yourselves. So it starts with the closest, then the next closest. One does not go to the distant ones and leave the close relatives. One starts with the closest first. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “O people of Quraysh, O Abbas, the uncle of the son of Abd al-Muttalib, the uncle of the Messenger, O Safiyyah, the aunt of the Messenger, O Fatimah, the daughter of Muhammad.” So he started with the closest, then the next closest, peace and blessings be upon him. So one starts with the closest, then the next closest. As for you going to the distant ones and leaving your relatives, that is a mistake, a great mistake. People do not obey you except for your own benefit, while you are neglecting your relatives. They say: If there were good in you, you would not have left your children and your family to go to the distant ones and call them. Yes, there are people today who go abroad and to other countries to call people to Allah. That is good, but their own countries need them, and they do not pay attention to them. There is shirk (associating partners with Allah) in them, there is major shirk in the worship of graves, there is Sufism and misguidance, and they do not address this in their own country first, then they go out to the outside. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Regarding His saying, Glorified and Exalted is He:
O you who have believed, protect yourselves and your families from a Fire whose fuel is people and stones
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا قُوا أَنفُسَكُمْ وَأَهْلِيكُمْ نَارًا وَقُودُهَا النَّاسُ وَالْحِجَارَةُAnswer:
All Muslims are those whom Allah commanded us to protect from the Fire, but we start with the closest, then the next closest.
And warn, [O Muhammad], your closest kindred.
وَأَنذِرْ عَشِيرَتَكَ الْأَقْرَبِينَAnd enjoin prayer upon your family [and people] and be steadfast therein.
وَأْمُرْ أَهْلَكَ بِالصَّلَاةِ وَاصْطَبِرْ عَلَيْهَا
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [3429- 4717] هل يدخل في قوله:﴿يا أيها الذين آمنوا قوا أنفسكم وأهليكم نارا) الأعمام والأخوال والأقارب — youtube.com
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