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If you cut off contact with a close family member, such as a sibling, do none of your good deeds count anymore?
Rebecca Masterton

It depends upon the reason. It is obligatory for a Muslim to defend their honour. They are not allowed to accept being humiliated. Ayatollah Dastghayb Shirazi mentions situations where it is wajib or permissible to do qat' al-rahm: 'to cut off ties': that is: if you are forced to commit haram by your family and if your family drives you out due to your religion. If you are being seriously emotionally or physically harmed by a family member, then it is technically not permissible for you to tolerate that. Please see this link below for more information: https://www.al-islam.org/greater-sins-volume-1-ayatullah-sayyid-abdul-husayn-dastghaib-shirazi/seventh-greater-sin-qata-ar#what-least-amount-silet-ar-rahm-wajib
If you cut off contact with a close family member, such as a sibling, do none of your good deeds count anymore?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Cutting off contact with any of your relatives is a major sin which leads to very dangerous consequences :

1. To be cursed by Allah,  according to Quran (Sura Muhammad, verses 22 and 23).

2. Your life span can be cut off, according to many authentic Hadeeths.

3. Your income will be cut off as well.

Wassalam.
Given the importance of maintaining family ties, can one refuse to attend family functions due to the fact that those relatives declare the Shi'a as Kafir?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

We should not cut ties with any relative even if they are bad to us and call us Kafir.

Our behavior should prove to them and other relatives our real identity and whether we are Kafirs or not.

Ahlul Bayt (AS) taught us to mix and treat our relatives and tribes with best manners. People wll then know the real teachings of Ahlul Bayt by seeing the good practice of the Shia.

Wassalam.
Can I disown my two children as they are atheists and eat pork in my home without any consideration? Or will that be breaking Sila Rahm and hence a sin?
Zaid Alsalami

Bismihi ta'ala

If it is your house, then you must have authority over what enters it and what happens inside the house. Instead of getting to the stage of disowning, or expelling them from your house, try to get them to compromise. 

For example, ask them to cook their non-halal means outside. 

Also, continue to do as much dua for them as possible, that Allah ta'ala enlightens their heart and guides them. Remember that the dua of a parent is always answered.

Wasslam