9.   Mutual love increases.

10.   A person’s reward increases even after death as others make du’ā in his favour.^[1]

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب             صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Evil suspicion is a cause of severing ties with relatives

Dear Islamic brothers, without a shadow of doubt, maintaining good conduct with one’s family and establishing ties with them brings about profuse blessings. It earns a person esteem, honour, success in the Hereafter, the pleasure of Allah, increase in sustenance, lengthening of lifespan, and other priceless blessings. Whoever breaks ties of kinship displeases Allah, ruins his hereafter, and also suffers greatly even in worldly affairs.

Many a time, we do not have positive opinions of our family. Instead, we allow suspicion and ill-opinion to take over, leading to family ties being broken left, right and centre. Sadly, this trend of instantly thinking bad of someone, suspecting them, or having ill-opinions is rampant. Over the smallest doubt or suspicion, we end up breaking ties with our own family.

Let us say we invited a family member to a function we have arranged. Something came up, and this family member was left unable to attend. We normally proceed to criticise, lambast and defame him, even resorting to backbiting in this process. We tell ourselves, “As he rejected our invitation, we will never attend anything he invites us to.”