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MAINTAINING TIES WITH KINSHIP

O Believers fear Allah and be sincere to Him in your worship and fear Allah through whom you demand your rights and do not sever your relations with kinship.

Allah Subhanahu Wa Taala says: "O Mankind be dutiful to your Lord who created you from a single person and from him he created his wife and from them both he created many men and women". (An-Nisa': 1)

Your Rabb created you from a single person - one soul . Your soul is one and your origin is one - one family from which many men and women came about and they all go back to one kinship. From this starting point came the obligation of maintaining solidarity, and being merciful with one another.

Servants of Allah the family of a person and his relatives are his support and they are his origin and his strength. Ali (Radhiyallahu Anhu) said: "With your tribe you fight and gain dignity, they are your support at times of hardship. Honor the dignified of them and visit the sick of them. Help the one in need of them and let not your family be the one who gets the worst of you".

Brothers in Islam Allah has commanded us to believe in His Oneness and has prohibited us from associating others with Him. To this He has joined being dutiful to parents and relatives.

Allah Subhanahu Wa Taala says: "Worship Allah and join not with Him and do good and be dutiful to parents, kinsfolk's, orphans, poor , neighbor who is near of kin , and neighbor who is a stranger, the companion by your side, the wayfarer and those slaves whom your right hands posses. Verily Allah does not like such as are proud and boastful" (An-Nisa': 36).

Allah Ta'aala says: "And your Lord has decreed that you worship non but Him and that you be dutiful to your parents". (Al-Israa: 23). "And give to the kinsmen his due and to the poor and to the wayfarer" (Al-Israa: 26).

O Believers, maintaining good ties and being dutiful to kinship is a right of every one who has relationship with you through blood or marriage and the closer he is in relation, the more obligated one is, in maintaining the relationship.

As the Prophet (Salla Allahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) said when he was explaining the importance of relation he said "Your mother...your mother...your mother, then your father, then the closest , then the closer". The way to fulfil the rights of kinship is to spread love, harmony, tolerance, sincerity and good heartedness.

From the greatest favors that Allah bestowed upon couples who are the origin and the seed of the family is that He put between then affection and mercy as He says: "And among His signs is this that He created for you wives from among yourselves that you may find repose in them and He has put between you affection and mercy" (Ar- Rum: 21). read more

~SAALIH IBN HUMAID~

Whenever a condition came upon Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam, He immediately turned His attention to Allah. We should try to follow this path for verily eternal success and happiness is promised for one who adopts the method of Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam.

If we bring into practice the recommended Duaas for different occasions, it will be the first step towards following this blessed path. With excessive downpour in the Johannesburg (South Africa) region recently, we should always have this fear that perhaps this is a curtain raiser to a punishment and practice upon the prescribed Duaas.

When it starts to rain recite:

Allahumma sayyiban naafi'a

O Allah, send abundant and beneficial rain

When there is a fear of too much rain causing disaster:

Allahumma hawaa layna wa laa alaina. Allahumma alal aakaami wal aajaami wath dhirabi wal awdiyati wa manaa bitish shajari

O Allah let it rain in our surroundings and not upon us. O Allah let it rain on the mountains, in the wild, in rivers, dams and valleys and in places where trees and shrubbery grow. (Al Hisnul Hasin, pg 190)

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Bubba and Junior were standing at the base of a flagpole, looking up. A woman walked by and asked what they were doing. "We're supposed to find the height of the flagpole," said Bubba, "but we don't have a ladder."
The woman took a wrench from her purse, loosened a few bolts, and laid the pole down. Then she took a tape measure from her pocket, took a measurement and announced, "Eighteen feet, six inches," and walked away.Junior shook his head and laughed. "Ain't that a 'genius'! We ask for the height, and she gives us the length!"

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