Is it permissible for a person to sever his family ties if they have severed his?
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Question:
Yes, Abu Abdullah is with us on the line, please go ahead, Abu Abdullah. Peace be upon you. And upon you be peace. May Allah keep you in good, O Shaykh. May Allah welcome you. Shaykh, I have one specific question, please, may Allah reward you with good, if Allah wills. Please go ahead. There is, well, hostility between me and him, but it has been going on for a while between us and our family, specifically our relatives. We are a few, and they do not greet us. You go to visit them, and they do not visit us. I visit them for the sake of Allah, for the sake of Allah, but they do not come to us, nor do they congratulate us on the festivals, and I do not know what the reasons are. These reasons have no justification and nothing to weigh the severance. What is your opinion, O Shaykh? Thank you.
Answer:
I do not know the reasons; you know them better. But you should maintain your family ties even if they have severed them, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Sunan Abi Dawud 1697Sahih (Al-Albani) You do what is required of you, and they bear what they have brought upon themselves. Yes.
Yes, Abu Abdullah is with us on the line, please go ahead, Abu Abdullah. Peace be upon you. And upon you be peace. May Allah keep you in good, O Shaykh. May Allah welcome you. Shaykh, I have one specific question, please, may Allah reward you with good, if Allah wills. Please go ahead. There is, well, hostility between me and him, but it has been going on for a while between us and our family, specifically our relatives. We are a few, and they do not greet us. You go to visit them, and they do not visit us. I visit them for the sake of Allah, for the sake of Allah, but they do not come to us, nor do they congratulate us on the festivals, and I do not know what the reasons are. These reasons have no justification and nothing to weigh the severance. What is your opinion, O Shaykh? Thank you.
Answer:
I do not know the reasons; you know them better. But you should maintain your family ties even if they have severed them, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
The Messenger of Allah (SAWS) said : One who compensates is not a man who unites relationship : but the man who unites relationship is the one who joins it when the relationship is cut off.
صلى الله عليه وسلم ليس الواصل بالمكافئ ولكن الواصل هو الذي إذا قطعت رحمه وصلها
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 1996 - هل يجوز للشخص قطيعة رحمه إذا قطعوه؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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