THIRD REMINDER. Yaum Al-Ahad 6th day of Shaãban. OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR FAMILIES. BismilLahir Rahmaanir Raheem.   Regardless of how bad our relatives are especially our parents, children etc. We must not break ties with them. ALLAH forbids us to break family ties. No matter how hard it might seem to keep familial relationships going, it's very important that we try our best to maintain them. Shaitan loves it when we break our ties so let's not please the shaitan. Watch your words. Just as our bodies are accountable on us, our words are also accountable. We have to protect our speech as best as we can. Most of the hard/ difficult life today in every Muslim community today is due to the curses by our own parents especially our mothers due to lack of Islamic knowledge and fear of ALLAH. With little issues, we only utter curses on our children. No backbiting for it is like eating the flesh of a dead brother! No creating fitnah or tarnishing another person's character. No lying. No making fun of people or even ourselves with name calling or nicknames that are ill in nature. Protect our expressions before we hurt someone with it. Even a sneer or the lifting of our eyebrows is a taunt to someone else. Avoid expressing jealousy. Only Allah knows what's best for each of us and not everything everyone else has is good for us. Protect our eeman by not being arrogant about the level of our eeman for there is always someone better! Watch what we write, read, say! We must always remember that the smallest slight can weigh very heavily on the Day of Judgement! We must always be careful of what we say to the people we are interacting with. Even with young people, we must be careful not to hurt them with our words. May Allah keep guiding us all. Aameen.