named Burhūt, which contains a well. Call into it in the same way you have done before.’

He did so and received a reply upon the very first call. The deceased Khorasani man said, ‘I have buried your belongings at so-and-so place in my home. I did not keep it with my family members. Go to my son and dig the ground at where I have said. You will find it there.’ The individual did so, finding his gold coins.

(Whilst at the well in Yemen, the individual asked the Khorasani man) ‘You were a very pious person. How did you find yourself here?’ He replied, ‘Some of my relatives used to live in Khorasan. I had broken my ties with them and died in this state. I was brought here as punishment from Allah.’^[1]

Dear Islamic brothers, look how terrible it is to cut ties with your relatives! The reward of many virtuous deeds is lost, and a person who does so may be deprived of Allah’s mercy in the hereafter. On the Day of Judgement, Allah will not have mercy on those who do not do good to their relatives. A fearsomely large snake from Hell will be set upon the neck of someone who does not fulfil the needs of his family whilst he was capable of doing so. It shall wrap itself around his neck like a necklace. Whoever cuts ties with his family is even punished in this world and in the hereafter.

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                 صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Dawat-e-Islami’s Amity Department

Dear Islamic brothers, whether quarrelling takes place between family members or other Islamic brothers, it is so destructive that a person becomes a source of admonition for others by doing it. The Islamic