1. Maintaining family ties is obligatory, and cutting them is forbidden, and a deed that leads to Hell.^[1]

2. Good treatment of relatives is not simply reciprocating what they do to you. That is merely mutual exchange; if they send you something, you send them something back; if they visit you, you see them.

3. True good treatment is that when someone cuts themselves off, you mend ties with them. When they distance themselves, you bring ties together and uphold the rights of relationships.^[2]

4. Different forms of maintaining family ties include: giving gifts and presents, assisting them if they need help, greeting them, visiting them, sitting and conversing with them, and treating them with kindness and courtesy.^[3]

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صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                                     صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

The six ṣalawāt and two duꜤāˈs recited in the Sunna-inspired weekly gatherings of Dawat-e-Islami