How to pay a debt to one's family while feeling shy about informing them
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. I owe my mother and my brothers a sum of nine hundred and fifty riyals, and I am too shy to tell them about it. Is it obligatory for me to give it to them as charity on their behalf, or should I gather them for a lunch or dinner? I owe my mother and my brothers a sum of nine hundred and fifty riyals. I am too shy to tell them about it. Is it obligatory for me to give it to them as charity on their behalf, or should I gather them for a lunch or dinner?
Answer:
But this is not permissible, and there is no precedent for it. If they have money in your trust, you give it to them. You ask them for forgiveness, and you are not absolved by such means. And Allah the Exalted knows best, and may Allah send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon his family and his Companions.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. I owe my mother and my brothers a sum of nine hundred and fifty riyals, and I am too shy to tell them about it. Is it obligatory for me to give it to them as charity on their behalf, or should I gather them for a lunch or dinner? I owe my mother and my brothers a sum of nine hundred and fifty riyals. I am too shy to tell them about it. Is it obligatory for me to give it to them as charity on their behalf, or should I gather them for a lunch or dinner?
Answer:
But this is not permissible, and there is no precedent for it. If they have money in your trust, you give it to them. You ask them for forgiveness, and you are not absolved by such means. And Allah the Exalted knows best, and may Allah send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon his family and his Companions.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/34 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:28:49)
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