The ruling on giving a parent money to buy forbidden items
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The questioner:
Your Excellency the Shaykh. A listener, Haa Shin from Yemen, says: My father asks me for money and buys with this money cigarettes or tobacco. Is it obligatory for me to give him the money, or should I tell him I have no money?
The Shaykh:
No, do not give it to him. This is assisting in sin, so do not give it to him to buy something forbidden with it, because you are helping him in that. But advise him to leave this thing, and give it to him on the condition that he buys something permissible with it. Yes.
The questioner:
If it is forbidden for the Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
It is forbidden, but the father has a right, and Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says:[Luqman 31:15] You must please him with what is permissible. Yes.
The presenter:
Yes. May Allah bless you.
Your Excellency the Shaykh. A listener, Haa Shin from Yemen, says: My father asks me for money and buys with this money cigarettes or tobacco. Is it obligatory for me to give him the money, or should I tell him I have no money?
The Shaykh:
No, do not give it to him. This is assisting in sin, so do not give it to him to buy something forbidden with it, because you are helping him in that. But advise him to leave this thing, and give it to him on the condition that he buys something permissible with it. Yes.
The questioner:
If it is forbidden for the Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
It is forbidden, but the father has a right, and Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says:
But if they endeavor to make you associate with Me that of which you have no knowledge, do not obey them but accompany them in [this] world with appropriate kindness
وَإِن جَاهَدَاكَ عَلَىٰ أَن تُشْرِكَ بِي مَا لَيْسَ لَكَ بِهِ عِلْمٌ فَلَا تُطِعْهُمَا وَصَاحِبْهُمَا فِي الدُّنْيَا مَعْرُوفًاThe presenter:
Yes. May Allah bless you.
Source
قناة «إذاعة القرآن الكريم»، نور على الدرب مع معالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان ح7509 — youtube.com (4:46)
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