🤲Spiritual Refinement, Manners & Remembrance

Righteousness and connection by Ibn al-Jawzi

البر والصلة لابن الجوزي

Author: جمال الدين أبو الفرج عبد الرحمن بن علي بن محمد الجوزي (المتوفى: 597هـ) (d. 597)

About this work

يتناول كتاب "البر والصلة" لابن الجوزي موضوع البر بالوالدين وصلة الرحم من منظور ديني وأخلاقي، مبيناً أهمية هذه المعاني في الإسلام وفضلها عند الله تعالى. يتناول الكتاب أحاديث وأقوال تبين فضائل بر الوالدين وصلة الرحم، ويدعو إلى التمسك بهذه القيم وتعزيزها في المجتمع، مع ذكر العواقب السيئة لمن يقصر في هذه الحقوق أو يعاقر والديه.

Translation

The book “Righteousness and Connection” by Ibn al-Jawzi deals with the topic of honoring parents and maintaining family ties from a religious and moral perspective, showing the importance of these meanings in Islam and their favor with God Almighty. The book covers hadiths and sayings that show the virtues of honoring parents and maintaining family ties, and calls for adhering to these values and strengthening them in society, while mentioning the bad consequences for those who neglect these rights or disobey their parents.

Topics covered

The first chapter mentions what is reasonable in honoring one’s parents and maintaining family ties
Chapter Four: In presenting Brahma to jihad and migration
Chapter Six: Honoring one’s parents increases lifespan
Chapter Eight: Appreciating the mother in righteousness
Chapter Nine: Mentioning what a son repays his father in terms of kindness
Chapter Ten: Mentioning the reward for honoring one’s parents
Chapter Eleven: The reward for spending on parents
Chapter Twelve: Mentioning those who were exaggerated in honoring their parents
Chapter Thirteen: On the sin of disobeying one’s parents
Chapter Fourteen mentions the punishment for disobeying his father
Chapter fifteen mentions the punishment for disobeying his mother
Chapter seventeen: Answering the parents’ invitation to the child
Chapter Eighteen: Answering the parents’ prayers for the child
Chapter Nineteen: On the sin of the one who disowns his father or son
Chapter Twenty: On the sin of one who claims someone other than his father
Chapter Twenty-Two: On the permissibility of a father taking back his gift to his son
Chapter Twenty-Three: Relationship with parents after their death
Chapter Twenty-Five: On visiting their graves
Chapter Twenty-Six: The reward for spending on children
Chapter Twenty-Eight: The reward for spending on a divorced daughter
Chapter Twenty-Nine: On Kindness to the Aunt
Chapter Thirty: The reward for maintaining family ties and the punishment for breaking it
Chapter Thirty-One: The reward of charity given to a relative
Chapter Thirty-Two: Relationship with relative relatives
Chapter Thirty-Four: Relating to a polytheist relative

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