{"id":6574,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/neglecting-obligations-to-family\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:20:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:20:59","slug":"neglecting-obligations-to-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/neglecting-obligations-to-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Neglecting Obligations To Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>Is  it wrong for a Muslim husband to leave his wife and kids at night after  12:00 pm midnight so he can be with his friends and stay with them for a  few hours?<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>This issue has not been discussed in the <em>Shari&#8217;ah<\/em>.  The general teachings of Islam oblige a person to fulfill the rights of  the spouse and the children. If one continually neglects the rights of  the spouse and the children and stays out without purpose he may incur  displeasure of God for ignoring the rights of the family members.  However, there could be valid reasons and situations when one  occasionally goes out. Time is not important in this regard. The only  thing that one needs to observe is to fulfill the rights of the spouse  and the children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-02-21<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6574\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is  it wrong for a Muslim husband to leave his wife and kids at night after  12:00 pm midnight so he can be with his friends and stay with them for a  few hours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1173,1162],"tags":[1696,1238],"class_list":["post-6574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-morals-and-morality","category-social-issues","tag-husband","tag-wife"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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