Relatives

• The best of you, before God and His creation, are those who are best in their own families, and I am the best to my family.

•  He is the most perfect of Muslims, whose disposition is most liked by his own family.

•  The favor of God doth not descend upon that family in which is one who deserts his relations.

•  He is not a perfect performer of the duties of relationship who doeth good to his relatives as they do good to him. He is perfect who doeth good to his relatives when they do not do good to him.

•  O Messenger of God! Verily I have done a great crime; is there any act by which I may repent? He said, "Have you a mother?" "No," said the questioner. "Have you an aunt?" asked Muhammad. He said, "Yes, I have." Lord Muhammad said, "Go, do good to her, and your crime will be pardoned."

•  The duty of a junior to a senior brother is as that of a child to its father.

•  Giving alms to the poor hath the reward of one alms; but that given to kindred hath two rewards; one, the reward of alms, the other, the reward of helping relations.

•  A man's first charity should be to his own family, if poor.