{"id":33767,"date":"2024-11-18T12:11:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T12:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/?p=33767"},"modified":"2024-12-27T21:48:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T21:48:39","slug":"making-dua-for-my-deceased-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/making-dua-for-my-deceased-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Dua For My Non- Muslim Deceased Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 07701<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><br \/>\nAnswered by Maulana Abdoullah Limvoonheek<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Question:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">My parents passed away some time ago but they were not Muslim. Alhamdulillah Allah guided me to Islam. My question is, can I make dua for them and ask Allah to forgive them?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">It is very important to honour and respect one\u2019s parents. We learn from the incident of Ibrahim \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0647 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645 that even when one\u2019s parent is a disbeliever, we should still respect and honour them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However if it comes to disobeying Allah, then one should not listen to one\u2019s parents. In the hadith it is mentioned: \u201cHearing and obeying is required from every Muslim man \u2013 in what he likes and what he dislikes \u2013 as long as he is not ordered with <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">disobedience. If he is ordered with disobedience, then no hearing or obeying is required of him.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Thus when one\u2019s parents are still alive, one should make dua for them whether they are believers or not. Mostly for the disbelieving parents to be blessed with imaan. We are ordered to do so in the Quran (Surah Isra ayah 24):<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">\u201cand submit yourself before them in humility out of compassion and say, My Lord, be merciful to them as they have brought me up in my childhood.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">But if they are deceased, then dua can be made only for a Muslim. We cannot make dua for a disbeliever which is the consensus of the Muslim ummah and the established stand where Allah says (Surah Taubah ayah 84):<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">\u201cAnd never offer a prayer on any one of them who dies, and do not stand by his grave. They disbelieved in Allah and His Messenger and died while they were sinners.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">The same is clearly mentioned also from the Quran (Surah Taubah ayah 113):<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">\u201cIt is not for the Prophet and the believers to seek forgiveness for the Mushriks, even if they are kinsmen, after it became clear to them that they are the people of hell.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Therefore we come to the conclusion that one is not allowed to make dua for disbelieving deceased parents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allah <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">knows best.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Written by Maulana Abdoullah Limvoonheek\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Reference:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Mariful Quran surah Isra ayah 24<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">\u0648\u064e\u0627\u062e\u06e1\u0641\u0650\u0636\u06e1 \u0644\u064e\u0647\u064f\u0645\u064e\u0627 \u062c\u064e\u0646\u064e\u0627\u062d\u064e \u0627\u0644\u0630\u0651\u064f\u0644\u0651\u0650 \u0645\u0650\u0646\u064e \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0651\u064e\u062d\u06e1\u0645\u064e\u0629\u0650 \u0648\u064e\u0642\u064f\u0644\u0652 \u0631\u0651\u064e\u0628\u0651\u0650 \u0627\u0631\u06e1\u062d\u064e\u0645\u06e1\u0647\u064f\u0645\u064e\u0627 \u0643\u064e\u0645\u064e\u0627 \u0631\u064e\u0628\u0651\u064e\u064a\u0670\u0646\u0650\u0649\u06e1 \u0635\u064e\u063a\u0650\u064a\u06e1\u0631\u064b\u0627<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; 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