What is the amount of financial maintenance due to parents?
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Question:
Yahya from Jeddah, please, Yahya. Hello, peace be upon you. And upon you be peace. How are you? Good, may Allah preserve you. May Allah reward you with good, O Shaykh. I have two questions, please. The first question is that I am an employee at a company and my salary is low, and I have my parents, may Allah prolong their lives, and I want to provide for them, but it is beyond my capacity. Sometimes they ask me for things, so I am unable to pay more than what is within my means. At times I delay my purchases, my affairs, and things I urgently need, so from month to month, to the point where I am in a state of destitution. The question is clear, the Shaykh will answer. The Shaykh will answer the question.
Answer:
My brother, spend, spend on your parents and on those whose maintenance is obligatory upon you, according to your ability,[Al-Baqarah 2:286], so spend on them according to your capability and means. Yes.
Yahya from Jeddah, please, Yahya. Hello, peace be upon you. And upon you be peace. How are you? Good, may Allah preserve you. May Allah reward you with good, O Shaykh. I have two questions, please. The first question is that I am an employee at a company and my salary is low, and I have my parents, may Allah prolong their lives, and I want to provide for them, but it is beyond my capacity. Sometimes they ask me for things, so I am unable to pay more than what is within my means. At times I delay my purchases, my affairs, and things I urgently need, so from month to month, to the point where I am in a state of destitution. The question is clear, the Shaykh will answer. The Shaykh will answer the question.
Answer:
My brother, spend, spend on your parents and on those whose maintenance is obligatory upon you, according to your ability,
Allah does not charge a soul except [with that within] its capacity
لَا يُكَلِّفُ اللَّهُ نَفْسًا إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 2516 - ما مقدار النفقة على الوالدين؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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