Connecting with the relatives Monday, 22 August 2011 04:05

By Ramzi Al Saeed

A Muslim whose heart is filled with faith lives according to the Islamic values ​​and etiquette, as he has been ordered, fasts during the month of Ramadan and prays in the nights of this month in the hope of Allah’s mercy that encompasses all things.  You will find him in these blessed days seeking his relations to connect, and doing good deeds because he knows very well that in connecting with the relations, and having good manners with his relatives is a sign of closeness with Allah, and he realizes that this righteousness and connection bring blessings in his livelihood and life. Anas, may Allah be pleased with him, said that the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said: Who likes extension in his livelihood and in his life, he should connect with his relations.

The human soul by nature is a lover of goodness, it works on seeking ways that bring improvement in livelihood and blessing in life. There is no doubt that connecting with kinship is the door to general goodness, that ensures the unity of communities and their cohesion, and the hearts are filled with feelings of comfort and reassuring, as the person remains always immune to loneliness and isolation, and he makes sure that his relatives are surrounding him with friendliness and care, and they provide him with assistance when he needs, and the righteousness and relations are the reason for love of people and their praise for him, and to break the relations is an ominous thing to happen for a person, and is scourge and anger from Allah and people and a distance from paradise, the house of reward.

Islam in all its teachi–ngs recommends friendliness among relatives and urges better relations with the kin. A conscious believer should connect with his relations, he should not be distracted by the world nor the money nor the wife and children from visiting his relatives, and doing good things to them, and he should respect them and help them, and in doing so, he follows the path of our religion, which organized this relation, and Islam took care of the relation in a great way that is not seen in other religions, systems and laws. Islam recommended it, and urged to connect it, as Islam threatened those who break it. Islam’s care for the relation can be shown in the wonderful picture expressed by Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, that the relation stands in front of Allah in a big square, where Allah created the creation, and it seeks refuge from being cut, Allah responds to his requirement and connects those who connect it  and cuts those who cut it. The verses of Holy Quran stress on the status of the relations in Islam, urging to treat it kindly, and raising the feelings of a sense of its bonds, and fulfill its rights, preventing violation of these rights or touch them with injustice or harm, threatening harming it, among those holy verses is the saying of Allah Almighty: And fear Allah, who you ask, and relations. Allah commanded piety and seconded relations  for its improvement, then the goodness extends from the kinship and expands its scope, and focuses on all those who need the goodness in the great human family, as this harmonizes human nature that tends to start righteousness with close relatives, and it fits with the general path of Islam in organizing the Muslim community in making the social solidarity starts from the family and then it extends to the circle of relatives and then spins around the community with ease,  compassion, satisfaction and love, making life sweet, pretty and worthy of human beings, it is enough for human being to hear the words of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, about the person who cuts the relations that he does not enter Paradise, and it is enough to know that Allah’s mercy is withheld from the one who cuts kinship, and it does not come down to him, even it does not reach the people among them is one who cuts the relation, it is a big scourge surrounding him, when he calls he is not answered, and if he acts it is not accepted, and if he comes close to the mercy of his Lord he gets far away from it.

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