Living alone in US after she divorced her husband
10-1-2005 | IslamWeb
Question:
I ask about the case of a woman that live alone in states and nobody with here she is Muslim and her family, I mean father and brother don't care at all how she live they even never call her or ask about her, she called them every week to do this for Islam, and she really suffer about that kind of negligibility of her family. She was good with all of them and she is in states after she divorce with her husband and her parents don't want her to back to them country. So she is working and feeling so depressed and alone, she pray a lot but she feel so weak sometimes, could you tell us what is the best advice for her, and what is the opinion of Islam in her situation she is really in need to your prayer.
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 is His slave and Messenger. We ask Allaah to exalt his mention as well as that of his family and all his companions.
One of the most serious matters on someone's religion is residing in a country where one is unable to perform his religious rites or fears to commit prohibited acts. So it is an obligation for every Muslim who is unable to perform his religious rites or is not safe to migrate to a Muslim country provided he/she is able to do so. Therefore, if you fear about your religion and yourself by residing in that country you have to migrate if you are able to do so. If you have no Mahram (unmarriageable relative) to travel with you, it is still permissible for you to travel without one.
Since you have stated that sometimes you feel weak, if you mean religiously weak (i.e. you do not perform your religious duties because of the environment where you live) then you have to take the initiative to migrate immediately to a country where you can perform your religious rites. This life is not eternal, so if one leaves this world having performed all his religious duties then it is as if he had explored all the treasures of this world, and if one leaves this life having neglected his religious duties and not performed good deeds, then he has indeed lost everything.
Finally, we advise you to keep ties with your kinship, even if they cut relations with you, especially your parents; you have to please them. You have also to seek religious knowledge and keep company with pious believing women. We also advise you to get married to a pious, Allaah fearing man as this could solve your problem.
Allaah knows best.