Do not supplicate against your children!

Reference: https://twitter.com/binothaymeen/status/1316000144651882499


Fataawa Su.aal ‘alal-Haatif v1 p146

Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen advised:

Supplicating against the children is wrong!

If the children do something which is not befitting for them to have done, then that which is obligatory upon you is to supplicate [to Allaah] for their guidance. So you [should] say something like:

‘May Allaah rectify you O my child! Why did you do such-and-such?’

‘May Allaah guide you O my child! Why did you do such-and-such?’

And do not say ‘may Allaah deal with you’ or ‘may Allaah break your back’, or what is similar to that.


Translation originally published on 25 October, 2020.

Graduate of the Islaamic University of Madeenah, having completed the Arabic Language programme at the Institute of Arabic Language before progressing to the Faculty of Sharee'ah, from which he graduated in 2004. He currently resides in Birmingham, UK.

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