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Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh

As-salamu ala malanabiyya, b'a'dahu wa a'ala a'lihi wa sahbihi a'jmahin

You see how excited I was that I actually jumped the gun

and I wanted to quickly come to the front and see all my brothers and sisters

May Allah bless you all and grant you blessings and goodness throughout your lives

My brothers and sisters, the topic that is behind me dealing with family problems

is extremely important if you were to look at the value given to family by Allah Almighty

you will come to realize that immediately after speaking about worshipping Him alone

which is of the greatest importance He speaks about parents and then by extension of family members and so on

A beautiful verse where Allah says He has declared that none shall be worshipped but Him

and that you shall be kind to your parents

The parents being the root for you and I of the family unit

and obviously if that unit is going to be intact or it is going to be upon a high level of goodness

the rest of it will follow

it cannot be that the Almighty gives importance to something that is not important

Similarly, if we are being instructed by the maker Himself to be kind to what is known as the head of the family

the parents, the head of the family then surely it will not be so easy to do that

He would not need to repeat it if it was so simple

There are other verses where Allah speaks about it in a similar fashion and gives the extension

and He continues to say

He speaks about worshipping Allah alone being good to your parents and to your relatives

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