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Fatwa CenterSon cursing dead father for doing injustice in his life time
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IN A FAMILY OF A FATHER AND TWO SONS LIVING TOGETHER, WHERE ALL THREE ARE EARNING MEMBERS AND PLACING THEIR MONEY TOGETHER IN THE FATHER'S HAND. THE FATHER IN HIS LIFE TIME DISTRIBUTED HIS PROPERTY UNEQUALY AMONG TWO SONS. IS IT JAIZ FOR THE SON TO CURSE THEIR FATHER FOR DOING INJUSTICE IN HIS LIFE TIME IN DISTRIBUTING HIS ASSETS? WE SEEK YOUR GUIDANCE IN THE LIGHT OF HOLY QUR'AN AND SUNNAH WHICH IS THE LAST VERDICT ON EARTH AND ALLAH 'S BLESSING TO MANKIND.
Answer
All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad, sallallaahu ʻalayhi wa sallam, is His Slave and Messenger.
If the father gifts his children something, he should be just between them according to their shares in the inheritance. The Prophet Muhammad, sallallahau ‘alayhi wa sallam, said: “Fear Allaah (O! believers) and be just in dealing with your children”. [Al-Bukhari and Muslim].
Allaah has clearly defined each one's share in the inheritance. Justice among the children makes them all equally obedient.
The Prophet Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, said to Basher Ibn Nueman, the father of Nueman Ibn Bashir 
: “Will you not be pleased that all of them become equal as far as obeying you?” [Muslim].
This justice is in what belongs to the father. As for what he takes from his children, if he appropriates it, it becomes the same as what he has earned from his own work. So he should be just in giving it out to them. But if he takes this from his children as a consignment, or as an investment for them from which he spends on them, he should then give it back to them according to what each one of them has originally given him.
Anyway, your father might be right or wrong in distributing these belongings. So, if he had taken money from you (his son) as a loan or as a consignment and had spent on you from it and when redistributing it again among all his children he had distributed what belonged to him justly among them and had given out to each one of them what belonged to him, so this is undoubtedly just.
But if you gave your father your earnings to appropriate them and spend on you from them, then it was preferable for him to be just and equitable in distributing them between you and his other children. You must keep good faith in your father's deeds.
However, the gift he did during his life became effective as long as he did not take it back before his death. After your father's death, his son should not ask for any right from his brother for what his father had given him, because it has became his brother's own property.
On the other hand, cursing one's father is among the greatest sins. How one could curse his father for the mean vanities of the world!!
He - the father - was raison d' etre of his son. Imaams Bukhari and Imam Muslim narrated from Abdullah Ibn ‘Amr that the Prophet Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, said: “One of the most heinous sins is that a person curses his parents'. He was asked: 'O Messenger of Allah! How could a person curse his own parents? He said: 'when he abuses another's father, who, in turn, abuses his father, and when he abuses another's mother, who, in turn, abuses his mother”.
Just imagine how bad it is to curse one's own father. Allah has ordained on us to be good to our parents even if they are unbelievers. He said: “But if they (both) strive with you to make you join in worship with Me others of which you have no knowledge, then obey them not, but behave with them in the world kindly”.
Therefore, you must ask Allah's Forgiveness and Mercy for your father. You must treat your brother kindly and you should not make a problem out of this matter in order to dislike and hate your brother.
We ask Allah to bless you and us with a good end of this life.
Allaah Knows best.
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