Relationships add a lot of color and support to life. Sweet and worthy relations make life worth living. In times of need, after Allah almighty, you may look towards your relatives for help. There is always great expectation and hope that is associated with the relatives. Blood relations, especially, are very important. Your brother and sisters spend a great part of their lives with you they share happiness as well as sadness with each other. This is the reason why your love and attachment towards your relatives is always very strong. For this reason Islam, has allotted special rights to the relatives so that the expectations associated with such relations can be fulfilled in a better sense.
Islam has very strict laws in relation to the interaction with relatives. It is regarded as an act of corruption if a person cuts off his contacts with any of his relations. It has been made compulsory to help the needy relations at the time of their requirements and a person should always stay kind to his relatives.
A Muslim needs to fear Allah in his dealings with the relatives. He will be accountable on the Day of Judgment in front of Allah almighty in relation to the treatment which he had maintained with his closed ones.
Cutting of relationships for any kind of reason is a deed that is just not acceptable in the eyes of Allah almighty at any cost. The blood relations have been made by Allah himself and a person has got no authority to modify or cut off from relations that were made in place by Allah. It has been mentioned in Quran that
“And cut asunder those things which God has commanded to be joined, and work mischief in the land; — on them is the Curse; for them is the terrible Home!” [Holy Quran: Ra'd: 13:25]
These verses show that staying in touch with each other and being honest towards your relations is very important. It doesn’t only creates love among people, but also pleases the Allah almighty and his pleasure can allot you with great out comes not only in this world, but also in the world hereafter.
Our beloved Prophet PBUH was very much kind and just towards his relatives. Whenever he was needed by someone he was there to help. He once said:
“Help your relatives, even if you only give them a drink of water. The best form of helping relatives is not to bother them.” [Bihar al-Anwar, v.74, p.103]
At another place our Prophet mentioned that
God’s mercy shall not be bestowed upon a nation in which there are those who cut off relations with their relatives. [Ibid]
Being loyal and kind towards your relations is very important because Allah almighty highly dislikes the act in which a person cuts of from his relations.
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