Guidance for one afflicted with an undutiful son
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The questioner:
She says: I have a son from that man, who is approximately eighteen years old. He does not obey me, nor does he listen to my words. On top of that, he curses and insults me. He listens to his father’s words and obeys him blindly. He has not prayed up to now. This
The Shaykh:
has taken after his father’s character. May Allah grant us safety.
The presenter:
Yes.
The Shaykh:
His father is like him in his sin. May Allah grant us safety, because he raised him on falsehood and evil. As the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “His parents are his helpers and his supporters.” So this wicked son has emerged following his father’s path. So call upon Allah for his guidance. Call upon Allah for his guidance that Allah may bestow upon him guidance and upon his father. Because in reality, he commits many great evils: his cursing of you, his abandoning of prayer, and his failure to fulfill his duty toward you. All of this is a great evil. So it is obligatory for him to repent to Allah, and to pray and fast, and to be dutiful to you, and to seek your pleasure until you permit him. This is what is obligatory for him. It is not permissible for him to obey his father in disobedience, neither in abandoning prayer nor in anything else. Rather, it is obligatory for him to disobey his father in this, and to oppose his father by praying, being dutiful to his mother, fasting Ramadan, and avoiding what Allah has forbidden for him. This is what is obligatory for him. So we ask Allah for his guidance and for his father’s
The presenter:
and that He turn them both back to the right path.
The Shaykh:
and that He protect them from Satan, and that He help you to oppose them and not to obey them in what angers Allah (Mighty and Majestic). Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah.
The Shaykh:
You may not help your son or your husband in their sins against Allah. You must stay away from that, and this disbelieving husband must not be close to you until he repents to Allah and returns to the right path. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good.
She says: I have a son from that man, who is approximately eighteen years old. He does not obey me, nor does he listen to my words. On top of that, he curses and insults me. He listens to his father’s words and obeys him blindly. He has not prayed up to now. This
The Shaykh:
has taken after his father’s character. May Allah grant us safety.
The presenter:
Yes.
The Shaykh:
His father is like him in his sin. May Allah grant us safety, because he raised him on falsehood and evil. As the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “His parents are his helpers and his supporters.” So this wicked son has emerged following his father’s path. So call upon Allah for his guidance. Call upon Allah for his guidance that Allah may bestow upon him guidance and upon his father. Because in reality, he commits many great evils: his cursing of you, his abandoning of prayer, and his failure to fulfill his duty toward you. All of this is a great evil. So it is obligatory for him to repent to Allah, and to pray and fast, and to be dutiful to you, and to seek your pleasure until you permit him. This is what is obligatory for him. It is not permissible for him to obey his father in disobedience, neither in abandoning prayer nor in anything else. Rather, it is obligatory for him to disobey his father in this, and to oppose his father by praying, being dutiful to his mother, fasting Ramadan, and avoiding what Allah has forbidden for him. This is what is obligatory for him. So we ask Allah for his guidance and for his father’s
The presenter:
and that He turn them both back to the right path.
The Shaykh:
and that He protect them from Satan, and that He help you to oppose them and not to obey them in what angers Allah (Mighty and Majestic). Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah.
The Shaykh:
You may not help your son or your husband in their sins against Allah. You must stay away from that, and this disbelieving husband must not be close to you until he repents to Allah and returns to the right path. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good.
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 4572 - توجيه لمن ابتليت بابن عاق - نور على الدرب — youtube.com
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