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The second question today is a very difficult one.

Sister says do not mention my name, so she is Sister anonymous.

She emails a long email she says we always hear

about the rights of the parents over and over and over again. How about the

rights of the children and how about the rights of the children?

And how about the rights of those children who have been abused by the parents?

Then she goes into a lot of detail that I will not go into.

She basically says that I'll skim over it, that you know that her father was abusive to the point that when she's around him, she gets anxiety attack, she gets flashback, she cannot breathe properly, now she has moved on, she's

living separate, and she is saying that, is it Wajib for me to visit to be a dutiful daughter or can I just make duah and let it be?

What is my obligation?

Do I have to serve him given that we have this past and she has some details of the abuse. So this is the question. It is not obvious that the sister has had a very traumatic childhood and my question and my answer to it is not therapy or counseling. It is not

addressing the psychological issue. It is addressing the Fich issue. I advise this

sister and anybody in that situation that along with asking a

sheikh and an Islamic person also consult with a therapist and a counselor

clearly reading her email she has a lot of trauma, it's called, and she doesn't

know how to unpack it.

And Shechs are not therapists.

Shechs are not counselors. We can give you the fich, we cannot give you therapy. And it is a

mistake to come to any one of us who has Islamic knowledge with issues that

require therapy unless the person has

trained in therapy and I have not trained to be a counselor and we need to realize

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