Is it permissible for me to hold a party for my Coptic colleague on the occasion of his marriage?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah reward you. I am a doctor and I have a Coptic colleague, and I want to hold a party for him on the occasion of his marriage. Is this permissible for me?
Answer:
Do not hold a party for him on the occasion of his marriage. If you help him with the marriage and he is poor, there is nothing wrong with that; because this is helping him to remain chaste, helping him to avoid what is forbidden, and there is nothing wrong with it. And Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says:[Al-Mumtahanah 60:8] And you should be kind to them and pay them their dues. If you give him a gift or give him something, that is fine. But that you hold a party to honor him while he is a disbeliever, this is not permissible. Yes, Allah the Exalted knows best, and may Allah send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon his family and his Companions.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah reward you. I am a doctor and I have a Coptic colleague, and I want to hold a party for him on the occasion of his marriage. Is this permissible for me?
Answer:
Do not hold a party for him on the occasion of his marriage. If you help him with the marriage and he is poor, there is nothing wrong with that; because this is helping him to remain chaste, helping him to avoid what is forbidden, and there is nothing wrong with it. And Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says:
Allah does not forbid you from those who do not fight you because of religion and do not expel you from your homes
لَّا يَنْهَاكُمُ اللَّهُ عَنِ الَّذِينَ لَمْ يُقَاتِلُوكُمْ فِي الدِّينِ وَلَمْ يُخْرِجُوكُم مِّن دِيَارِكُمْ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [781 -1024] هل يجوز أن أعمل لزميلي القبطي حفلا بمناسبة زواجه؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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