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Is Talking on the Phone and Sending Letters from Joining the Ties?
His Eminence the Great Scholar and Imam
Shaikh Abdul-Aziz bin Baz
(رحمه اللّه)
Question:
I have relatives that live far from my home country and I am not able to travel to visit them so is there a sin upon me for that and is connecting with by way of the phone or sending letters through the mail considered joining the ties with them? Please benefit me May Allah reward you with good.
Question:
I have relatives that live far from my home country and I am not able to travel to visit them so is there a sin upon me for that and is connecting with by way of the phone or sending letters through the mail considered joining the ties with them? Please benefit me May Allah reward you with good.
Ruling:
It is not an obligation that you travel to them while there is the ability to join ties with them through writing or the telephone. All of this is possible and all praise is for Allah and it is not obligatory to travel unless there was some need for it or a necessity which is something different altogether. What is intended is that joining family ties be in writing, by visiting if able without burden, by the phone, having your friends convey to them your salutations, supplicating for them asking for success, asking about their needs, and giving money if they are in need. All of this is from joining the ties of kinship. The prophet said in an authentic hadeeth, "whoever wishes to have his provision increased and life lengthened then let him join the ties of kinship." He also said, "Joining the ties is not done expecting something in return, but it is joining the ties after they have been cut". (Al-Bukhari) and someone said to him, "O messenger of Allah, I have a relative whom I join ties with and they cut me off, I am good to them and they are evil to me, I dream about them (from thinking of them so often) and they forget about me. So the messenger said, If it is like what you said in that it is as if you are eating hot coals with them then Allah's help will be with you so long as you continue with that as you have." So this issue has great good for the individual who joins the ties, has patience, and is upright even if he is met with evilness, if he is patient with them and gives them their rights then he is upon great good and will have a good ending and this is the title of the real joining of ties, just as the messenger said, "Joining the ties is not done expecting something in return" who joins the ties only if they join ties with him and then cuts the ties when they cut the ties with him, this is not the one who joins the ties. The one who really joins the ties is he who joins them if they cut him off, is good to them if they are bad or evil to him and this is completeness in this affair, and this is honor and a generous creature. This is what is appropriate for the believer to do, even doing good to the one who does evil to him and thinking of the one who forgets him, and with this he will obtain a great virtue and a big reward. May Allah reward you all with good.
Translated by
Eesa John Starling
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