When we are speaking about “keeping ties with your kin”, we are referring to any relative for you from your father’s side or your mother’s side. Whether he was a close cousin or a far cousin. Anyone who is related to you from your father’s side or your mother’s side is classified as “Rahim” to you. You have to maintain a good relationship with them and you do not sever the tie with them without an Islamic excuse.
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