Those Who Are Included in Maintaining Family Ties and Their Types
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Question:
The questioner, Abu 'Abd al-'Aziz, also asks: Honorable Shaykh, regarding maintaining family ties, who are the people included in this? How does severing the tie occur? And if there is contact by telephone, is that sufficient?
Answer:
The family tie includes everyone with whom you are related through the mother or the father; they are all relatives. Maintaining the tie with them is done by being kind to them, through kind words and actions. One starts with the closest, then the next closest. Contacting them is a type of maintaining the tie, a type of maintaining the tie, but it is not sufficient in place of the other types of maintaining the tie. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The questioner, Abu 'Abd al-'Aziz, also asks: Honorable Shaykh, regarding maintaining family ties, who are the people included in this? How does severing the tie occur? And if there is contact by telephone, is that sufficient?
Answer:
The family tie includes everyone with whom you are related through the mother or the father; they are all relatives. Maintaining the tie with them is done by being kind to them, through kind words and actions. One starts with the closest, then the next closest. Contacting them is a type of maintaining the tie, a type of maintaining the tie, but it is not sufficient in place of the other types of maintaining the tie. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/228 — archive.org (13:04)
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