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Maintaining ties with relatives
whomever is found performing it, nobody in their right mind would deliberately go ahead and commit the crime regardless. They will try to avoid it instead. Now let us consider! If we pay this close attention to the rules of a worldly leader, what about the commands of Allah, Who is Rabb al-’ālamīn and Aḥkam al-ḥākimīn? Everything we receive, be it benefit or harm, occurs according to His will. He harbours complete power over our lives and deaths. How foolish of us to deliberately disobey a Being of such limitless strength, and it is none but He who ordered us to maintain good ties with our relatives.
The importance of this cannot be understated. For example, even if someone takes an oath to not treat his relatives well, he must still exhibit good conduct towards them and undertake expiation (kaffārah).
The father of Sayyidunā Abū al-Aḥwas ‘Awf b. Mālik رَضِىَ اللهُ عَنْهُمَا narrates:
I humbly asked, “O Messenger of Allah صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم ! When I go to my cousin to ask for something, he does not give anything nor treat me kindly. Whenever a need arises for him, however, he comes and asks from me. I have taken an oath to not give him anything nor maintain ties with him. What do you declare for me to do?” The Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم replied, “Do whatever is good, and expiate for your oath.”[1]
Dear Islamic brothers, if a person vows to wrongfully harm someone, cut ties with relatives or not fulfil the rights of another, it is sinful for them to carry out such an oath. Expiation must also be paid for it.
BOOK TOPIC
- Excellence of sending salat upon the Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم
- Maintaining ties with relatives
- Pain caused by a relative
- Quranic commandment for maintaining ties with relatives
- Break the oath!
- Biggest sin
- Definition of صِلَهٔ رِحۡمي - good conduct with relatives
- Strengthen relationships with relatives
- Reality of maintaining ties
- Virtues of maintaining ties with relatives
- Ten virtues of maintaining a good relationship with relatives
- Evil suspicion is a cause of severing ties with relatives
- Excellence of having good opinions
- Become brothers of one another
- Living under the same roof, yet upset with one another
- Encouragement to act upon Pious Deed number 61
- Those who sever relations with you, join ties with hem!
- Keeping good ties with family has become a burden for some
- Punishment for severing ties
- Dawat-e-Islami’s Amity Department
- Rights of younger siblings upon their elder siblings
- Rights of elder siblings upon their younger siblings
- A reply full of wisdom
- Sunnah and etiquette of visiting a graveyard
