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Dear Burhan Bhai,Assalaamu Alaikum(Varah.)

I am regualr questionnaire in ur website.ALHOMNDULILLAH,i got all my questions answered...

I need ur guidance once again from AL-QURAN & Hadees, My Question is that,

I know that Gold is haraam for Gents.My Mother wish is that he want to put a chain for my son (who is 3 months old )to see for her satisfication only for a week.I personally feel that,it is not a wrong thing since my son is just 3 months old.And too for a week only.

Please advice me in this issue..by keeping AL-QURAN & HADEES in ur mind.

AR-RAHMAN ALLAH say in the Holy Quran,that Fullfill and obey ur parents except they told you to pray other thing.

Jazakallahu Khair.

 

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Answer:

 

Gold for male child

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

 

Your Statement: I know that Gold is haraam for Gents

Sunan of Abu-Dawood Hadith 4046  Narrated by Ali ibn AbuTalib

The Prophet of Allah (saws) took silk and held it in his right hand,  and took gold and held it in his left hand,  and said: “both of these are prohibited to the males of my community.”

 

Al-Tirmidhi Hadith 808         Narrated by Abu Musa Ash'ari

The Prophet (saws) said: ‘Wearing silk and gold has been made unlawful for the males of my Ummah and lawful for their females.’

 

The Messenger of Allah (saws) absolutely forbade and declared it ‘haraam’ for the male believers, regardless of their age, to adorn themselves with gold.  If a male infant  is adorned with gold or silk by its parents/guardians, the child will be obviously be absolutely blameless, and it would be the parents/guardians of the child who will be held responsible for the transgression.

 

Your Statement: My Mother wish is that he want to put a chain for my son (who is 3 months old )to see for her satisfication only for a week.I personally feel that,it is not a wrong thing…….. AR-RAHMAN ALLAH say in the Holy Quran,that Fullfill and obey ur parents except they told you to pray other thing.

Indeed, time and time again Allah and His Messenger (saws) have guided the believers to be obedient to their parents…..but unlike the unconditional obedience which is due to Allah and His Messenger (saws) alone, obedience to one’s parents is conditional in Islam….one is only to obey one’s parents (or anyone else in creation) only if its obedience does not involve disobedience to the Guidance of the Creator.

 

Al-Tirmidhi Hadith 3696        Narrated by An-Nawwas ibn Sam'an

Allah's Messenger (saws) said, "A creature is not to be obeyed when it involves disobedience to the Creator."

 

Neither would it be lawful for your mother to make such an unlawful demand, nor would it be lawful for you to obey your mother in her unlawful command….for none is creation is to be obeyed if it involves disobedience to the Creator.

 

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone.  Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

 

Your brother and well wisher in Islam,

 

 

Burhan