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“Whoever loves that he be granted more wealth and that his lease of life be prolonged, then he should keep good relations with his kith and kin.”
Sahih al-Bukhari 5986
Sahih al-Bukhari 5986“Whoever loves that he be granted more wealth and that his lease of life be prolonged, then he should keep good relations with his kith and kin.”
Recently, I spent time with brothers from a village near the capital. One thing immediately stood out.
Their family was close.
Brothers, cousins, and relatives remained connected. The deen was clearly important to them, and you could feel the strength that came from their unity.
Many of them had also been blessed with wealth.
Of course, we cannot look at one family and claim that their wealth was caused by their family relationships. Only Allah سبحانه وتعالى knows the reasons behind His blessings.
But witnessing their unity made the hadith much easier to appreciate.
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When Families Become Strangers
Today, many families are divided.
Brothers stop speaking. Cousins become strangers. Relatives live close to one another but rarely communicate. Sometimes one household succeeds while another struggles, with little cooperation or collective strength between them.
When kinship becomes weak, the family loses more than relationships.
It loses trust.
It loses shared knowledge.
It loses opportunities to support one another.
It loses the strength that comes from people who know they can depend on each other.
Kinship Is More Than a Social Obligation
Islam does not treat maintaining family ties as a minor social courtesy.
The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ connected maintaining kinship with increased provision and a prolonged lifespan.
That should make us rethink how we view our families.
A strong Muslim family is not simply a collection of households related by blood. It can become a network of people who support one another in deen, knowledge, work, marriage, hardship, and wealth.
The goal is not merely to have a large family.
The goal is to have a connected family.
A family strengthened by Islam.
A family that helps one another rather than competes against one another.
A family where success is not simply individual, but can strengthen the people around it.
So ask yourself:
How strong are your ties with your extended family?
Are your brothers and cousins strangers, or are you building something together?
Are you united only by blood, or also by the deen?
Strong families create strong communities.
And strong communities create the foundation for a strong Ummah.
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