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

He is a graduate of the Islaamic University of Madeenah, having graduated from the Institute of Arabic Language, and later the Faculty of Sharee'ah in 2004. He currently resides in Birmingham, UK.

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