Ruling on a dispute between two brothers
Question My father and my uncle – my father’s brother – are always arguing. We live in one house, with only a dividing wall between us. My father is single and my uncle is single; my mother has died and my uncle’s wife has died. I always advise them not to fight, but sometimes my…
Question
father’s brother – are always arguing. We live in one house, with only
a dividing wall between us. My father is single and my uncle is single; my
mother has died and my uncle’s wife has died. I always advise them not
to fight, but sometimes my uncle picks on my father. How can I advise both
of them – my father and my uncle? Please note that my father prays and
fasts, and my uncle prays sometimes and not at other times, but he does
fast.
Praise be to Allah.
Advise
your uncle to pray regularly and explain to him that the salaah is the
most important pillar of Islam after the Shahaadatayn.
Forsaking prayer is kufr, and his fasting is not valid if he is not
praying. His good deeds will not be accepted if he does not pray. Advise
them both to be righteous and to fear Allaah, and to uphold the ties of
kinship and pay attention to the rights of relatives; whoever cuts the
ties of kinship, Allaah will cut him off, and whoever takes care of the
ties of kinship, Allaah will take care of him. Read to them both the
aayaat of the Qur’aan and the ahaadeeth of the Prophet which speak of
that. Then if you uncle responds, then praise be to Allaah, otherwise you
have to shun him.
