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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Advice regarding family disputes, and a warning against those who stoke these disputes

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Question:
May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good. Some of these family disputes reflect on the wives in their unawareness, and perhaps they are victims of them. Is there a word to say? May Allah reward you with good?

Answer:
There is no doubt that disputes between families cause harms; they cause severance of ties between relatives, and they cause hatred between believers and between neighbors. They may cause divorce and the scattering of families, and separation between a man and his wife. In them are great harms. For this reason, Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, says:
No good is there in much of their private conversation, except for those who enjoinلَّا خَيْرَ فِي كَثِيرٍ مِّن نَّجْوَاهُمْ إِلَّا مَنْ أَمَرَ
[An-Nisa 4:114]
with a charity, or a good deed, or reconciliation between people. So it is obligatory to reconcile between those who are in conflict and those who disagree, not to stoke the dispute between them or distort things between them. And He, Glorified and Exalted is He, says:
So fear Allah and amend that which is between youفَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَأَصْلِحُوا ذَاتَ بَيْنِكُمْ
[Al-Anfal 8:1]
. And the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, the corruption of relations is the shaver. I do not mean it shaves the hair, but rather it shaves the religion." And the corruption of relations carries great danger and great harms, especially between spouses, and within the same family, and between a parent and his children. So it is obligatory to reconcile between people and to settle the dispute. It is forbidden for talebearers and those who sow discord to intervene between people, for in this there is a great sin. And the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
The tale-bearer shall not enter Paradise.لا يدخل الجنة نمام
Sahih Muslim 105a
. And Allah, Exalted and Majestic is He, says:
(10) And do not obey every worthless habitual swearer (11) [And] scorner, going about with malicious gossip - (12) A preventer of good, transgressing and sinful,وَلَا تُطِعْ كُلَّ حَلَّافٍ مَّهِينٍ هَمَّازٍ مَّشَّاءٍ بِنَمِيمٍ مَّنَّاعٍ لِّلْخَيْرِ مُعْتَدٍ أَثِيمٍ
[Al-Qalam 68:10-12]
. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، نصيحة حول الخلافات الأسرية، والتحذير ممن يذكي هذه الخلافات - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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