ABU DHABI // Maintaining cordial relationships within your family is a religious obligation, worshippers will be told at Friday’s sermon.
“Our Lord has created humans and made them peoples and tribes to know each other and enter into relations,” it will say.
Islam always called for harmony between families and humanity as a whole.
A Hadith by the Prophet Mohammed says: “You see the believers as regards their being merciful among themselves and showing love among themselves and being kind, resembling one body, so that, if any part of the body is not well then the whole body shares the sleeplessness [insomnia] and fever with it.”
In order for this relationship to be achieved, family ties need to be observed as it a sign of faith.
The sermon cites an incident when a man came to the Prophet Mohammed and said: “Direct me to a deed which draws me near to Paradise and takes me away from the fire [of hell].”
Upon hearing this, the Prophet Mohammed replied: “You worship Allah and never associate anything with Him, establish prayer, and pay Zakat, and do good to your kin.”
When the man turned his back, the Prophet Mohammed remarked: “If he adheres to what he has been ordered to do, he would enter Paradise.”
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