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Beaware of spoiling the relations between people
Narrated Abu ad-Darda' may Allah be pleased with him:
The Prophet ( may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him ) said: Shall I not inform you of something more excellent in degree than fasting, prayer and spending in charity? The people replied: Yes, O Messenger of Allah! He said: It is putting things right between people, spoiling them is the shaver (destructive). Sunan Abi Dawud. Its chain of narrators is weak.
Maintaining the ties of kinship is one of the principles of this religion, a branch of faith, a proof of the integrity of the heart and the truthfulness of the certainty.
It is a noble moral that adorns the Muslim, and elevates him among his family, relatives, neighbors and all those who deal with him.
There is no one better than those who maintain the ties of kinship, treat them kindly and likes for them what he likes for himself.
In many verses, the Qur'an urges us to maintain the ties of kinship and warned against severing it.
The Prophet ( may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him ) recommended maintaining the ties of kinship in many Hadeeths that are hardly counted.
In his saying ( may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him ) : “spoiling them is the shaver (destructive).”. He warned us of severing what Allah ordered to be maintained through the ill-treatment, evil assumptions and misconduct.
Putting things right between people include the matters which connect people such as kinship, neighborliness, friendship, fellowship in work, companionship in the way, and other social relations.
One of the greatest of these links is the brotherhood of faith. It is the surest link between the righteous worshipers of Allah, between the nation of ( there is no god worthy of worship but Allah ), since the descendants of Adam, peace be upon him, until Allah inherits the earth and whatever on it.
Maintain the ties of kinship deepens the roots of the brotherhood based on faith, and gives it a special taste, since compassion is built on them together. It is said: So is the brother of so in the faith and he is his brother in lineage.
The relationship between the neighbors is like the ties of kinship. If the believers are close to each other, and they have ties of blood and lineage, they will be like one soul, and they are drawn together by the bonds of closeness and love from every side. Therefore, they shall reconcile the ties with this spirit, which smelted them in one crucible, and establish their order on the religion that Allah has chosen for them.
This religion is the most powerful link that is never inseparable, and its people are not dispersed in any way, and their lives are not aimeless. Because their persistence and compassion is a proof of the validity of their faith and the soundness of their certainty. The unity is a source of strength and dispersion is a source of weakness, holding fast to Allah is the mainstay of their strength, the path of guidance. Sticking to his book and the Sunnah of his Prophet peace be upon him is the basis of their brotherhood, and the method of their lives, they will not be protected from the evil of themselves except with resorting to it.
