Does maintaining family ties include the sons of maternal aunts, whether male or female? Because I am a woman who wears the niqab and do not sit with men other than my mahrams. What should I do regarding someone who died and I did not maintain ties with?
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The questioner : In the second question of this questioner, she asks: Does maintaining family ties include the sons of maternal aunts, whether male or female? Because I am a woman who wears the niqab and do not sit with men other than my mahrams. What should I do regarding someone who died and I did not maintain ties with? Is repentance, seeking forgiveness, giving charity on their behalf, and performing 'Umrah for them sufficient? May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : The kinship for which maintaining ties is obligatory is the relationship through the mother or through the father. So uncles and maternal uncles, all of them, a person must maintain ties with them. But if the woman is not a mahram to them, it is not permissible for her to go and greet them by shaking hands or uncovering her face, because that is forbidden for her with non-mahrams. But she asks the women of the household: How are you? How are the men? How are the women? How are the children? And the like of that.
As for those who died and she did not maintain ties with them, she repents to Allah (Mighty and Majestic) from the severance that occurred from her, and she seeks forgiveness for those who died. Indeed, this is part of maintaining their ties without doubt. Yes.
The Shaykh : The kinship for which maintaining ties is obligatory is the relationship through the mother or through the father. So uncles and maternal uncles, all of them, a person must maintain ties with them. But if the woman is not a mahram to them, it is not permissible for her to go and greet them by shaking hands or uncovering her face, because that is forbidden for her with non-mahrams. But she asks the women of the household: How are you? How are the men? How are the women? How are the children? And the like of that.
As for those who died and she did not maintain ties with them, she repents to Allah (Mighty and Majestic) from the severance that occurred from her, and she seeks forgiveness for those who died. Indeed, this is part of maintaining their ties without doubt. Yes.