Request:
I am a Syed and write to you in the hope that as a learned Islamic scholar, you can provide advice and guidance. Its a Muslim’s job to pray, and up to Allah which prayer is answered. Please keep the details of this request private. I have a brother who has been involved with a Non Muslim girl. This girl is not interested in adjusting to an Eastern or Muslim way of life and is leading my brother astray onto the wrong path. She will not marry him because she knows she will have to conform to our way of life but she won’t leave me either and let him get on with his life. Her enticement is greed, money. We are respectable people and cannot support a haram way of life. And inshallah, if things work out well, I will be happy to offer whatever donation I can afford.
Response:
Speak to your brother to the same effect because he is the one who will benefit from your assessment, but inject some mercy for all concerned into the latter, and no one knows what good the future holds. Remember even Sayyidina Yusuf, upon him peace, said — to teach us humbleness:
وَمَا أُبَرِّئُ نَفْسِي إِنَّ النَّفْسَ لأَمَّارَةٌ بِالسُّوءِ إِلاَّ مَا رَحِمَ رَبِّيَ إِنَّ رَبِّي غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ
“Nor do I absolve my own self (of blame): the (human) soul is certainly prone to evil, unless my Lord do bestow His Mercy: but surely my Lord is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.” (Surat Yusuf, 12:53)
Hajj Gibril Haddad
