Question
Will it be proper to occasionally eat at the table to please my parents or grandparents?
Answer
The Sunnah should not be abandoned to please anyone. It is a lesser sin to default on the Sunnah because of nafsaani weakness than to neglect a Sunnah for pleasing someone. To sit at the table for a proper meal to specifically please others, be they parents, is a serious offence. It will be abandoning the Sunnah for the pleasure of people.
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- themajlis.co.za
- Published in
- The Majlis Vol 23 No 01
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- 12
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