1.         The punishment for a sin which is immediately given in the world and its torment is stored in the Hereafter as well, is not greater than rebellion and severing ties with relatives. (Tirmizi, Hadees 2519, vol. 4, pp. 229) 

Punishment for severing ties

Sayyiduna Faqih Abul Lays Samarqandi عَـلَيْهِ رَحْـمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ الۡـقَـوِی has narrated in Tanbih-ul-Ghafileen that Sayyiduna Yahya Bin Sulaym رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has stated: A pious person from Khurasan used to live in Makkah Mukarramah زَادَھَـا الـلّٰـهُ شَـرَفًـا وَّ تَـعۡـظِیۡـمًا. People used to give him their belongings for safekeeping. A person entrusted ten thousand gold coins to him and went on a journey for some work. When this person returned from the journey, he learnt that the Khurasanian person had died. He asked the family members of the deceased about his entrustment but they denied all knowledge of it. This man who had kept the gold coins with that person consulted with the scholars of Makkah Mukarramah about the issue, they replied, ‘We are hopeful that the Khurasanian person would be a dweller of Heaven. Go to the Zamzam well after half of or one-third of the night has passed. Call him with his name and ask him.’ He did so for three nights but received no reply. When he informed the scholars about this, they uttered, ‘اِنَّا لِلّٰهِ وَ اِنَّآ اِلَيۡهِ رٰجِعُوۡنَ’.

Thereafter, they said, ‘We are afraid that he might not be a dweller of Heaven. They now advised him to go to Yemen. In a valley of Burhoot is a well ’. When you reach the well, call him in the same way.’ He did so and received a reply on the very first call. The deceased said, ‘I have buried your belongings at so-and-so place of my home. I have not entrusted your possession with my family members. Go to my son and dig the ground, you will find it there.’ Therefore, he did so and found his possession. I asked him, ‘You were a very pious person, why are you here?’ He replied, ‘Some of my relatives used to live in Khurasan. I had broken off relations with them and died without reconciling with them. Therefore, I was brought here as punishment from Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ.’ (Tanbih-ul-Ghafileen, pp. 72, summarized)

Dear Islamic brothers! Ponder over this! How terrible it is to cut ties with your relatives! Because of this, the reward of many virtuous deeds is lost and that person may be deprived of Allah’s mercy in the Hereafter. On the Day of