A statement on who the relatives are and maintaining ties with them via telephone
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The questioner:
We move on to a message from the listener Hasan from al-Madinah al-Munawwarah, where he says: Who are the relatives, and is the maternal uncle included among the relatives?
The Shaykh:
The relatives are those connected to you by kinship through the father or through the mother, such as paternal uncles, paternal aunts, maternal uncles, maternal aunts, grandfathers, and grandmothers. So, anyone connected to you by blood kinship through the father or through the mother is among the relatives (dhawi al-rahim), and they are the kin or the close kin.
The questioner:
Yes, may Allah bless you. Is maintaining contact with relatives via the telephone considered maintaining family ties?
The Shaykh:
Yes, this is a type of maintaining family ties, because it involves the salam, inquiring about their conditions, and pleasing their hearts. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
We move on to a message from the listener Hasan from al-Madinah al-Munawwarah, where he says: Who are the relatives, and is the maternal uncle included among the relatives?
The Shaykh:
The relatives are those connected to you by kinship through the father or through the mother, such as paternal uncles, paternal aunts, maternal uncles, maternal aunts, grandfathers, and grandmothers. So, anyone connected to you by blood kinship through the father or through the mother is among the relatives (dhawi al-rahim), and they are the kin or the close kin.
The questioner:
Yes, may Allah bless you. Is maintaining contact with relatives via the telephone considered maintaining family ties?
The Shaykh:
Yes, this is a type of maintaining family ties, because it involves the salam, inquiring about their conditions, and pleasing their hearts. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/185 — archive.org (11:41)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.