FILED UNDER: ANS Family Ties, ANS Marriage, ANS Parents, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: daughters, disillusion, duties toward parents, fathers, isolation, marriage, parents, rights of parents, sadness
/by YusufUstadha Raidah Shah Idil counsels on the role and duty of daughter toward parents, being a woman, feeling isolated overwhelmed by expectations. Question: Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. I am tired. I don’t feel like I understand my purpose anymore. Especially when I see so many of my sisters in Islam living […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Family Ties, ANS Marriage, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: abusive in-laws, family ties, harm, problems with in-laws, toxic relationships
/by YusufUstadh Farid Dingle is asked if it is permissible to cut ties to in-laws who are abusive in order to ward off harm to oneself and one’s children. Question: Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. I am in need of advice. As a daughter in law, I have cut ties with my husband’s brother […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Family Ties, ANS Parents, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: abusive parents, dealing with parents, emotional abuse, emotional health, mental health, righteousness to parents
/by YusufQuestion: Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. I am a Muslim woman in her early twenties, living with my parents and I have always had trouble in my household. I have grown up in a toxic and violently abusive environment with consistent emotional, verbal and psychological abuse, and at many times physical abuse. […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Family Ties, ANS Marriage and Divorce, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: amend relationships, excellence towards parents, family relations, maintaining family ties, marriage, marriage and parents
/by YusufUstadha Raidah Shah Idil advises on mending relations with estranged parents and marrying with their blessing. Question: Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. My parents got divorced when I was 3 and I ended up with my father who raised me. I didn’t see my mother for almost 19 years, until I finally […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Family Ties, ANS Marriage, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: conflict, conflict resolution, du`a, in-laws, marriage, reciting the fatiha
/by YusufUstadh Farid Dingle gives advice on how to heal relations between a husband and his in-laws, improve communication, and how the Fatiha is an excellent dua. Question: Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. I have been married for 7 yrs. Masha Allah everything has been fine but suddenly my husband’s behavior towards my family […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Family Ties, ANS Halal and Haram, ANS Parents, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: abuse, emotional abuse, emtional baggage, verbal abuse
/by YusufUstadha Raidah Shah Idil is asked if an older sibling has the right to abuse younger siblings verbally. Is it permissible for an older sibling to verbally abuse a younger sibling during a conversation on the basis that the abuser is older and therefore has the right? Does Islam allow someone who has been harmed […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Children, ANS Family Ties, ANS General Counsel, ANS Halal and Haram, ANS Marriage, ANS Parents, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog), Commanding the Right and Forbidding the Wrong
TAGGED WITH:: cutting ties, dealing with parents, family relations, family ties, limits of obeying parents, parental consent, parents approval
/by YusufUstadha Raidah Shah Idil gives a detailed answer on being asked by parents to cut ties with a brother. I have an older brother who is very dear to me (raised me and my sister very well). He is a really great guy, but recently he has “fallen in love” with a horrible woman. She […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Family Ties, ANS Halal and Haram, ANS Marriage, ANS Parents, ANS-General
TAGGED WITH:: marriage and culture, marriage and obedience to parents, marriage and parents, marrying a convert, parents approval, REVERT
/by YusufShaykh Jamir Meah answers a question about marrying a revert who has been deemed unfit by parents. I am a 26 year-old born Muslim female who still strives to be a better Muslimah every single day and am currently interested in a revert 33 year-old brother of two-and-a-half years in Islam. We met on a […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Children, ANS Family Ties, ANS Halal and Haram, ANS Marriage, ANS Parents, ANS-General
TAGGED WITH:: appearance, beautification, skin color modification, skin-lightening creams
/by YusufUstadha Raidah Shah Idil is asked about being forced by parents to use skin-lightening cream. I am a brown-skinned girl from South Asia. My parents lately have been really forcing me to apply skin-lightening cream on my face. I really do not want to put it as I’m content and thankful with how Allah have […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Family Ties, ANS Halal and Haram, ANS Living Religion, ANS Marriage, ANS Parents, ANS-General
TAGGED WITH:: arranged marriage, forced marriage, marriage without consent
/by YusufUstadh Farid Dingle answers a question about a father forcing his prepubescent daughter to marry. From what I have read on another website, a father can forcefully arrange his daughter’s marriage without her consent if she is prepubescent. Why is this allowed? Even if this marriage is supposed to have a clear interest for her, […]
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