Egyptian Fatwa Official Addresses Question of Shunning Father Over Remarriage

Dr. Ali Fakhr, a fatwa secretary at Egypt’s Dar al-Ifta, has addressed a question about children cutting off contact with their father because he married another woman.

The question concerned a father whose children had grown up and established independent lives before his marriage to another wife.

It asked whether the children’s decision to boycott their father on those grounds was permissible under Islamic teachings.

The brief summary provided did not include Fakhr’s answer or the reasoning behind it, so no specific ruling can be attributed to him from the available information.