Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.

 

It means that you must maintain good relations with your kith and kin even if they do dissever their ties with you. You must connect to them through calls, visits, gifts, spending money to them.

 

This is one of the greatest righteous deeds a Muslim can do. ‘Abdullah bin ‘Amr Al-‘as (May Allah be pleased with them) reported:  The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “The person who perfectly maintains the ties of kinship is not the one who does it because he gets recompensed by his relatives (for being kind and good to them), but the one who truly maintains the bonds of kinship is the one who persists in doing so even though the latter has severed the ties of kinship with him”. (Al-Bukhari)

 

Moreover, Anas b. Malik reported: I heard Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him) as saying: “He who is desirous that his means of sustenance should be expanded for him or his age may be lengthened, should join the tie of relationship.” (Al-Bukhari)

 

Almighty Allah knows best.