How do we deal with relatives who deal in riba (usury or interest) and invite us to their food and drink?
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The questioner : Well, the usurers here, the usurers, you know, Shaykh, that they are many.
The Shaykh : Yes, indeed, unfortunately...
The questioner : Unfortunately, well, but always my relatives and their relatives and some of their friends and so on ask us, and we are forced to go to these people. So, if they offer us some food or some drinks and so on, what do we do? Do we eat or not eat, or drink or not drink, and so on?
The Shaykh : If these relatives visit those relatives who have usurious wealth, and they eat and drink with them and do not advise one another, then it is not permissible for them to eat from their food or drink from their drinks. And they should remember the saying of the poet: "Your relatives are scorpions in their harm, *** So do not be attached to an uncle or a maternal uncle, for how many an uncle brings sorrow from him, *** And how many a maternal uncle is devoid of good." Perhaps you understood the answer?
The questioner : Yes, Shaykh.
The Shaykh : So...
The questioner : I have an issue with a brother of mine who is present with me here.
The Shaykh : Is this a voluntary prayer or an obligatory one?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Is this a voluntary prayer or an obligatory one?
The questioner : After the voluntary prayer, if there is something after the voluntary prayer.
The Shaykh : Hehe. Give it, give it.
The Shaykh : Yes, indeed, unfortunately...
The questioner : Unfortunately, well, but always my relatives and their relatives and some of their friends and so on ask us, and we are forced to go to these people. So, if they offer us some food or some drinks and so on, what do we do? Do we eat or not eat, or drink or not drink, and so on?
The Shaykh : If these relatives visit those relatives who have usurious wealth, and they eat and drink with them and do not advise one another, then it is not permissible for them to eat from their food or drink from their drinks. And they should remember the saying of the poet: "Your relatives are scorpions in their harm, *** So do not be attached to an uncle or a maternal uncle, for how many an uncle brings sorrow from him, *** And how many a maternal uncle is devoid of good." Perhaps you understood the answer?
The questioner : Yes, Shaykh.
The Shaykh : So...
The questioner : I have an issue with a brother of mine who is present with me here.
The Shaykh : Is this a voluntary prayer or an obligatory one?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Is this a voluntary prayer or an obligatory one?
The questioner : After the voluntary prayer, if there is something after the voluntary prayer.
The Shaykh : Hehe. Give it, give it.
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