We were commanded to maintain family ties, so who are the relatives in relation to a person?
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Question:
We were commanded to maintain family ties, so who are the relatives in relation to a person, other than the maternal uncle, maternal aunt, paternal grandfather, paternal grandmother, the parents' uncles, and the parents' maternal uncles?
Answer:
Yes, Allah the Exalted commanded us to maintain family ties and to give the relative his right in many verses, and He made this part of the rights that are obligatory upon the Muslim.
The Shaykh: Allah the Exalted said:[An-Nisa 4:1] meaning, fear Allah regarding the relatives, meaning, do not sever them. He the Exalted said: [An-Nisa 4:36] and from [An-Nisa 4:36] and from [An-Nisa 4:36] one from the side, one from the path, and what your right hands possess. The scholars said that this is the verse of the ten rights, because Allah mentioned ten rights in it. The third right in it is the right of relatives, after the right of Allah and the right of the parents. He the Exalted said: [Al-Isra 17:26] And it is evident in many verses of the Qur'an, and there are many hadiths in the Sunnah that command maintaining the ties of kinship. By kinship is meant the relative who shares a blood relation with you from the side of the father or the mother. Everyone who shares a blood relation with you from the side of the father, such as paternal uncles, paternal aunts, paternal grandparents, siblings, and the children of siblings, and so on, or from the side of the mother, such as maternal uncles, maternal aunts, maternal grandparents, siblings from the mother, and their children, are all among those with whom you have kinship ties. If these relatives are connected to you from both sides, from the father and the mother, or from the father only, or from the mother only, then they are among your close relatives. It is obligatory for you to maintain ties with them and to give them the right that Allah has made obligatory upon you, which is to be kind to them, to greet them with salam, and to do what is beneficial and pleasing to them. May Allah reward you with good.
We were commanded to maintain family ties, so who are the relatives in relation to a person, other than the maternal uncle, maternal aunt, paternal grandfather, paternal grandmother, the parents' uncles, and the parents' maternal uncles?
Answer:
Yes, Allah the Exalted commanded us to maintain family ties and to give the relative his right in many verses, and He made this part of the rights that are obligatory upon the Muslim.
The Shaykh: Allah the Exalted said:
And fear Allah, through whom you ask one another, and the wombs
وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ الَّذِي تَسَاءَلُونَ بِهِ وَالْأَرْحَامَWorship Allah and associate nothing with Him
وَاعْبُدُوا اللَّهَ وَلَا تُشْرِكُوا بِهِ شَيْئًاand to parents do good
وَبِالْوَالِدَيْنِ إِحْسَانًاto relatives, orphans, the needy, the near neighbor, the neighbor farther away
وَبِذِي الْقُرْبَىٰ وَالْيَتَامَىٰ وَالْمَسَاكِينِ وَالْجَارِ ذِي الْقُرْبَىٰ وَالْجَارِ الْجُنُبِAnd give the relative his right, and [also] the poor
وَآتِ ذَا الْقُرْبَىٰ حَقَّهُ وَالْمِسْكِينَ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، أمرنا بصلة الرحم فمن هم ذوي الأرحام بالنسبة للإنسان؟ الشيخ صالح بن فوزان الفوزان — youtube.com
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