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How can one deal with a mother who is overly critical and does not accept advice, while fearing for her the warning mentioned in the Hadith: "She harms her neighbors with her tongue," and is what is in the daughter's heart towards her mother considered a sin?

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What you feel in your heart towards your mother is fear for her, and this is commendable and not a reproach. As for what the mother does—especially the forbidden—the child's dislike of these actions is not an act of disobedience.

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