Haitham al-Haddad – My Relative affects my Worship – Ramadan Q and A

			If accepting if your relatives invite you to Iftar during Ramadan, and you feel that by accepting
the invitation, it might impact on your Ibadah Yep. This is a very,
		

			this is a very good question. Yes, this is a very good question. See, there is no black and white in
in this matter. For example, a mother invited you, your mother invited you okay. And she does not do
that then go even if that is going to affect don't say about that affect your specific a brother
because accepting the invitation of your mother or your father? Yeah. Is an A bad yeah. Is it bad
enough itself? Okay. No question about it. However, if like some families they gather together
before Iftar Yeah, every single part they might watch TV even if they don't watch TV and they spend
time cooking preparing for that gathering and they spend time in a chatting etc Then we say if you
		

			can avoid that today the invitation then that is better Okay. And you need to explain to your mother
to your parents to your siblings, that let us focus on that so that we can do it once a while but
not every single day as it is the habit of so many people. So, we need to judge these invitations
accordingly. And as we are talking about this, I strongly advise our brothers in particular the
married brothers not to overburden their wives by so many invitations, I know that many people would
like to feed you know during the month of Ramadan because the prophets Allah wa sallam was so
generously during the month of Ramadan, I prefer to strongly prefer that if you can make just one
		

			invitation to invitations you will during the month of Ramadan maximum okay and if you can avoid it
that is even better and the money that you are going to see it see use it to feed prove people Yeah.
		

			And maybe you can invite your relatives other than the month of Ramadan because honestly speaking,
the wives are overburdened by okay?
		

			For by cooking before hand and then cleaning after hand and then need to do about that as well.
Okay. And even you yourself, you need to buy this and that and this and that. And those who are
invited, they need to travel to accept that invitation. And of course, they will be socializing, and
a lot of time will be wasted. I strongly advise if we can use that money and for the sidecar and use
that time for the specific API that then definitely that would be better. But as I said, you need to
judge it and the consequences of not accepting the invitation