What are the rights of a step-mother over her step-children?

She has rights similar to their mother. She is in the position of their mother. It is incumbent on the step-children to respect her as their mother. They should honour her as their father’s closest friend. According to the Hadith it is obligatory on children to honour and respect and to assist their father’s friends even after his death. This directive will apply to a greater degree to one’s step-mother. Many children nowadays are rude and disrespectful to their step-mother. They feel that she has no rights over them and they speak to her as they wish rudely and spitefully. Such behaviour does not befit decent Muslim children. Even if a step-mother wrongs her step-children, they should not lose respect for her. They must realize that she is their senior and they are transgressing the Shariah by being disrespectful to her.

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