لَا يَرْقُبُونَ فِى مُؤْمِنٍ إِلًّۭا وَلَا ذِمَّةًۭ ۚ وَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْمُعْتَدُونَ
Laa yarquboona fee mu'minin illanw wa laa zimmah wa ulaaa 'ika humulmu 'tadoon
They do not observe toward a believer any pact of kinship or covenant of protection. And it is they who are the transgressors.
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Justice & honesty
9:10Ayah 1129
13 ayahs in At-Tawba are strongly about justice and honesty. This is one of them.
← Previous on Justice & honesty9:8How [can there be a treaty] while, if they gain dominance over you, they do not observe concerning you any pact of kinship or covenant of protection?Next on Justice & honesty →9:12And if they break their oaths after their treaty and defame your religion, then fight the leaders of disbelief, for indeed,
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They respect neither bond of kinship nor treaty with regard to a believer; those they are the transgressors.
Related Hadiths
"Whoever takes an oath to cut off the ties of kinship, or to do something that is not right, the fulfillment of his vow is not to do that."
"There is no vow and no oath concerning that which one does not possess, nor to commit sin, nor to sever the ties of kinship."
The severer of the tie of kinship would not get into Paradise.
"There is no sin more worthy of Allah hastening the punishment upon its practitioner in the world – along with what is in store for him in the Hereafter – than tyranny and severing the ties of kinship.” (Sahih)
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: There is no sin more fitted to have punishment meted out by Allah to its perpetrator in advance in this world along with what He stores up for him in the next world than oppression and severing ties of relationship.
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