The Ruling on Financial Maintenance for a Needy Relative
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Question:
This is a man who has a son with an intellectual disability, and he has a daughter. They have money that comes to them from social services. He says: They have cut me off now, and I live alone in a house. So, is it obligatory for me to provide financial maintenance for my son who has cut me off now?
Answer:
If he has the ability to spend from his money on them, on his son and his daughter, if the government assistance is not sufficient for them.
Q: If it is not sufficient for them?
A: It is obligatory for him to provide for them. It is obligatory to provide for: the father, the mother, the grandfather, the grandmother, and the brother. So, relatives must provide for one another when there is need, and this is part of maintaining family ties.
Q: And if it is sufficient for them?
A: If it is sufficient for them, he provides for the one among them who is in need, which is the son.
Q: They are his two children: his son and his daughter. He says: Money comes to them from social services, and they have cut me off now, so they do not visit me, and they do not greet me?
A: His dependents?
Q: Yes.
A: They are undutiful; they bear the sin of undutifulness to parents.
Q: And the financial maintenance?
A: And what is there in it?
Q: Does he provide or does he not provide?
A: Are they poor?
Q: They receive something from social services.
A: If it is sufficient for them, then no. But if it is not sufficient for them, it is obligatory for him to provide for them, even if they have cut him off:Sahih al-Bukhari 5991 narrated by al-Bukhari in "Sahih".
This is a man who has a son with an intellectual disability, and he has a daughter. They have money that comes to them from social services. He says: They have cut me off now, and I live alone in a house. So, is it obligatory for me to provide financial maintenance for my son who has cut me off now?
Answer:
If he has the ability to spend from his money on them, on his son and his daughter, if the government assistance is not sufficient for them.
Q: If it is not sufficient for them?
A: It is obligatory for him to provide for them. It is obligatory to provide for: the father, the mother, the grandfather, the grandmother, and the brother. So, relatives must provide for one another when there is need, and this is part of maintaining family ties.
Q: And if it is sufficient for them?
A: If it is sufficient for them, he provides for the one among them who is in need, which is the son.
Q: They are his two children: his son and his daughter. He says: Money comes to them from social services, and they have cut me off now, so they do not visit me, and they do not greet me?
A: His dependents?
Q: Yes.
A: They are undutiful; they bear the sin of undutifulness to parents.
Q: And the financial maintenance?
A: And what is there in it?
Q: Does he provide or does he not provide?
A: Are they poor?
Q: They receive something from social services.
A: If it is sufficient for them, then no. But if it is not sufficient for them, it is obligatory for him to provide for them, even if they have cut him off:
Al-Wasil is not the one who recompenses the good done to him by his relatives, but Al-Wasil is the one who keeps good relations with those relatives who had severed the bond of kinship with him.
ليس الواصِلُ بالمُكافئ، ولكن الواصل الذي إذا قَطعت رحمُه وصلَها
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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