“Who break the covenant of Allah after contracting it and sever that which Allah has ordered to be joined and cause corruption on earth. It is those who are the losers.” Chapter 2 Al Baqarah, verse 27.
The next thing mentioned in this verse is the importance of maintaining good ties with both relatives and non-relatives. Out of the two maintaining good ties with relatives is more important. In fact, the Holy Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, has warned in a Hadith found in Jami At Tirmidhi, number 1909, that the one who severs the ties of kinship will not enter Paradise. This applies to the person who severs ties over worldly issues. Severing ties over religious issues is lawful in Islam but it is important to note one must sincerely advise others to change for the better and only avoid their company if they fail to sincerely repent. But they must still treat them with respect at all times and if they request their help they should fulfil this request according to their strength as this act of kindness may well cause them to sincerely repent.
In respect to non-relatives, muslims have been warned not to cut ties with another muslim over worldly reasons for more than three days. This has been mentioned in a Hadith found in Sahih Bukhari, number 6065. In all cases, a muslim must continue to show respect to others according to the teachings of Islam. This part of the verse also refers to abusing the bonds one has with others for example, using the bond with someone in order to encourage them to commit a sin.
The final characteristic mentioned in this verse is adopting a mentality which causes corruption to spread in society. This negative characteristic affects all social levels beginning from a family unit and ending at the international level. This type of person dislikes seeing people uniting on good as this may cause the worldly status of others to increase beyond their own. This drives them to backbiting and slander in order to cause people to turn against each other. Their evil attitude destroys their own ties of kinship and when they observe other families who are happy it drives them to destroy their happiness also. They are fault finders who dedicate their time unveiling the mistakes of others in order to drag their social status down. They are the first people to begin gossiping about others and act deaf whenever good things are spoken about. Peace and quiet disturbs them so they seek to create problems in order to entertain themself. They fail to remember the Hadith found in Sunan Ibn Majah, number 2546. It advises that whoever covers the faults of others Allah, the Exalted, will cover their faults. But whoever seeks out and unveils the faults of others Allah, the Exalted, will expose their faults to the people. So in realty, this type of person is only unveiling their own faults to society even though they believe they are exposing the faults of others.
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