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Fatwa #3241419 March 2015Qatar

Can a person make a promise and not fulfil it in a compulsion situation?

Question

My qusestion is. If anyone can force someone to make promise by threatening to kill or hurt him or her self .But the person dont want to make promise at all but to over come that situation and by compultion that promise was made. 

Answer

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

As-salāmu ‘alaykumwa-rahmatullāhiwa-barakātuh.

In order for us to answer your query we need to know what the promise was.

And Allah Ta’āla Knows Best

Zakir Husain

Student DarulIftaa
Michigan, U.S.A 

Checked and Approved by,
Mufti Ebrahim Desai.

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