Maintaining Family Ties: Rulings of Kinship and Righteous Deeds in Ramadan | Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan

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📖 About This Series: This video is part of a complete English translation of the lecture series “Ramadan Gatherings – From the Rulings of Fasting” by Shaykh Dr. Salih al-Fawzan. 🌙 This series consists of legal rulings (fiqh) related to fasting and Ramadan, presented in a clear question-and-answer format. - The original lessons were broadcast on the Noble Quran Radio Station (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) and are part of a well-known Ramadan program addressing practical and frequently encountered issues related to fasting. 📝 This translation aims to faithfully convey the original scholarly content as delivered, without alteration or commentary, making these rulings accessible to English-speaking audiences. All rulings presented in this series are taken directly from the Shaykh’s original lectures as aired on Quran Radio KSA. 📌 Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEMYILfCIUM&list=PL3523jgHxjkYm4d-eixCJgRqDSP1YqM76&index=12 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ Authentic and True — From the Scholars to You ✦ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ YouTube Channel👇 https://m.youtube.com/@AuthenticAnswers Telegram👇 https://t.me/AuthenticAnswers WhatsApp 👇 https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb7Q4A1JJhzYiIdkCB41 TikTok 👇 https://www.tiktok.com/@authenticanswers Internet Archives 👇 https://archive.org/details/@authenticanswers ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Question Answered in This Video: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ (00:00 - 00:48) - Intro First Question: - What are the guidelines for maintaining ties of kinship, and who are the relatives a woman must maintain ties with? (00:49 - 01:00) - First Question (01:01 - 03:48) - First Answer First Answer: - Relatives include everyone connected through blood relations from the father’s side and the mother’s side, such as grandparents, siblings, uncles, aunts, and their children. Maintaining these ties is done through kindness, visiting them, helping them, and continuing relations even if they treat you poorly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Second Question: - Do the rulings of maintaining family ties also apply to relatives through breastfeeding? (03:49 - 03:59) - Second Question (04:00 - 04:13 ) - Second Answer Second Answer: - Relatives through breastfeeding are not considered blood relatives. Breastfeeding only establishes the ruling of mahramiyyah, not the obligation of maintaining kinship ties. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Third Question: - With modern communication methods, is calling relatives by phone sufficient for maintaining family ties? (04:14 - 04:24) - Third Question (04:25 - 04:41) - Third Answer Third Answer: - If a person cannot visit their relatives, contacting them by phone can suffice. However, if one is able to visit them in person, then visiting them is better and more complete in maintaining ties. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Fourth Question: - Was fasting prescribed for the previous nations before Islam? (04:42 - 04:49) - Fourth Question (04:50 - 05:12) -Fourth Answer Fourth Answer: - Yes, fasting was prescribed for the nations before this Ummah. However, the manner and timing of their fasting may have differed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Fifth Question: - What advice is there for people who stay awake at night in Ramadan and sleep during the day, causing them to neglect or delay their prayers? (05:13 - 05:26) - Fifth Question (05:27 - 07:58) - Fifth Answer Fifth Answer: - This behavior wastes valuable time and leads to serious sins such as missing prayers or delaying them beyond their proper times. A Muslim should organize his day and night properly, maintaining prayer with the congregation and using Ramadan for worship and remembrance of Allah. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Sixth Question: - Does the hadith “Whoever fasts Ramadan with iman and seeking reward will have his previous sins forgiven” include major sins? (07:59 - 08:11) - Sixth Question (08:12 - 08:55) - Sixth Answer Sixth Answer: - The correct view is that this forgiveness applies to minor sins, not major sins. Major sins require s