Should I Divorce My Spouse If My Parents Tell Me To – Shaykh Omar Suleiman

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Should I divorce my spouse if my parents tell me to.

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This is not one of the ways a person has to obey their parents, you have to understand that at some point, you know, when you get into a marriage, you still have it obviously becomes very difficult to honor both your parents and honor the spouse and that often becomes a turf war and very territorial. But at the same time, your obedience to your parents does not mean that you can trample the rights of your spouse. Because honoring the rights of someone that Allah subhanho wa Taala has allocated towards you is actually honoring Allah subhanho wa Taala himself. Now, what does this mean when you start to see that, see that conflict, obviously, you want to play the peacemaker role. I tell

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spouses all the time, try to patch up things never tried to take your spouse away from their own parents, except in very exceptional situations. But for the most part, trying to be a you know, a productive piece of keeping the ship moving in the right direction in sha Allah, because ultimately, you know, honoring our parents is one of the ways in which we honor Allah subhana wa Tada. So trying to help your spouse honor their parents is something that is good, and trying to do as much as we can, without tolerating abuse and volume and oppression. To keep things steady, is something that's rewardable in the sight of a loss parents out of but never should a person wrong their spouse

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because their parents tell them to do so. And so this is not the way that unless parents are the messengers intended for us when we talk about honoring our parents, so you don't have to divorce your spouse because your parents want them want once you to. Instead, try to be as much of a peacemaker as you can and Charlottetown and maintain the rights of everyone without trampling anyone and honoring the way that our last parents taught us to honor those who he has placed above us. Subscribe to this channel, share this video and click on the bell icon so that you can be notified with every new video at faith IQ