What constitutes deceit in raising children in general, and children of divorce in particular, especially in Western countries? And what are your directives and advice to a custodial mother who does the following to her daughter: she restricts the father's role to visitation and financial support, entrusts others with her upbringing without his consultation or consent, travels leaving the daughter behind and conceals this from him, does not protect the daughter from the violence of her half-siblings, directs the daughter to hate her father and his family, and takes the daughter to places where the mother knows the father opposes her [the mother] religiously?
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Cheating in raising children occurs by not disciplining them, not reforming them, not teaching them matters of their religion and their worldly life, not instilling Islamic morals in them, and not shaping their Islamic personality, as well as by not advising them; for the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Whoever is given charge over a flock and does not surround them with advice will not find the scent of Paradise, though its scent can be found from a distance of one hundred years."
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