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Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims

40 Questions

Why is it only the eldest son and not the other children who are responsible for the missed prayers of their father or mother after they've died?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

The wisdom behind rules of Islam is best known to Allah (SWT), His Prophet (SAWA) and The Infallible Imams (AS). We believe that all the rules from Allah (AS) are based on the absolute wisdom which aims to make our life real human life and guides us to the Right Path. We might be able to know some of the reasons but we can never argue for all the reasons.

Eldest son has the responsibly for the missed prayers and fasts of his parents because they served him before other children and he has the right to acquire special personal items (like rings, watch, personal Quran etc) from his deceased parents.

This rule does not mean that other children can not do that on behalf of their parents. In fact any of them can do whatever he or she wants to fulfill on behalf of their parents, but if it was not fulfilled, then the eldest son remains responsible to complete the remaining if any.

Wassalam.
If a husband wants to take his son to meet his mother, who has mistreated his wife in the past, does he have that right over their son even if the wife does not approve?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

The son must obey and go to see his grandmother. The mother has no right to prevent her son from visiting his grand mother. No obedience to any one including parents in disobeying Allah ( SWT).

Wassalam.
Is it true that if a grandfather A has two sons B and C and each of them have a son each called E and F, and then if B dies while A is still alive, there is no inheritance from A that will go to E? How is that fair for E?
Mohammad Saeed Bahmanpour

There is no difference in this regard between any of the grandchildren. As long as a child lives his or her children or the children of other siblings would not inherit. 
Did Imam Raza (as) have a son called Ja'far who then had a son called Hussain al-Sabir?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

There ae different opinions among the scholars in this matter.

Al Haafidh Abu Na'eem sated in Hilyat Al-Awliyaa that Ima Al-Ridha had six sons and Jafar is one of them.

Mohammad Ibn Talha al-Shafi'ee had the same opinion. 

Many of our scholars including Shaikh Al-Mufeed and Al-Erbily narrated from Imam Radha (AS) that he wl have only one son (Imam Al-Jawad) and Allah (SWT) will grant this one son lot of sons.

Wassalam