Abdal Hakim Murad – Being Neighbourly
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The speakers discuss the principles of Islam, including the concept of "med strict" and its importance in society, particularly in relation to the pandemic and the resulting behavior. They stress the importance of honoring neighbors, community engagement, and proper reputation. The speakers also emphasize the negative impact of being a neighbor on one's personal and professional lives and encourage viewers to be aware of the negative impact of social interaction on reputation. They stress the need for a culture of good neighbors, community engagement, and everyone's proper reputation, and emphasize avoiding offense at the expense of others and being a good neighbor.
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the culpa, tafel Aleem.
As we move through the fasting days and nights shifting as we
said last time, from linear time to cyclical time reconnecting with
our biological dependencies and our rootedness and the cosmic
order, we find that certain things become thrown into relief for us.
Some of these are internal, as we realize our own weakness and our
brokenness are thought of in bizarre, we recognize the reality
of our dependence dependence on the creator, the Razak the party.
As we contemplate the natural world, we recognize the divine
qualities of beauty of power of eternity.
As also we engage with others, we come to understand ourselves
better.
A Dino more armella, religion is interaction with others.
Ours is not by and large, the kind of tradition where there can be
permanent halwa permanent isolation. Instead, even though
all human beings are in a sense, islands in a great seat, than we
can ever fully overlap with another person's needs or
consciousness. Our aloneness only becomes bearable and also
fruitful. When that aloneness is conjoined with the existence of
other souls. We are social animals. And every aspect of the
Sunnah is a collective one. None of the five pillars of Islam or
the principles of iboga are really solitary. Some of the newer fill
are solitary, the tahajjud, perhaps,
or optional fasting, perhaps nobody ever knows that you did it.
Or sadaqa. But essentially, all of our basic practices are in
engagement with other human subjects.
So there's a cat is for the Ummah, and specifically for the Mr.
Keane, webinars Seville, affair recap all of these categories of
needy people. And through the effulgence of our wealth upon
them, we experience a purification at a blessing.
Similarly, fasting, even though it is this solo act, nonetheless, we
experience it as the most collective time of the year.
That it is about the family coming together for support and prayers,
the family coming together, or perhaps the whole congregation
coming together for the Iftar and then the evening meal. And then
the tearaway which is emphatically a collective act and then the aid
itself, where the whole Ummah rejoices together and Ramadan ends
the final moment that is specifically a Ramadan act with a
final embrace with your brethren on the day of the eighth and then
it's just back to the normal humdrum round of daily existence.
The last moment of Ramadan is an embrace. Ramadan is when we
embrace others in solidarity, recognizing the shared fact of our
mortality and our weakness, and the gratitude that comes from
breaking bread together.
Ramadan is also a time when we individually and collectively
experience the feast that is God's book. The hadith calls it the
battle law, God's banquet. And as we sit together, we stand together
in the tearaway hearing the voice of eternity. We know that as a
collectivity, we receive it more surely than if it was just one
person standing alone.
So yes, a time of sociality, even though fasting seems to be the
most individual of Acts. And Ramadan would be hard to imagine
without that bringing together families, communities,
neighborhoods and souls.
One important aspect of this, that we need to give special thought to
if we're living in minority situations in the modern West is
the question of neighbors.
The famous Hadith in Bukhari and Muslim it's an Abu Hurayrah Hadith
where the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says,
Men can men be lazy will your male hair follicles
Hey, Ron, I will Yes What whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day
let him say what is good or hold his peace, which is a particularly
Ramadan type of principle when the teeth really do have to be the
bars of the, the Tiger's cage of the mouth and stopping all of the
animal predatory utterances coming out.
But the Hadith has several variants. And another variant,
which is also a sound variant is fairly new Kareem Jarrah, who, and
another one for Ukraine pifo. So whoever believes in Allah, and the
Last Day, let him
honor his neighbor.
And in the other version, let him honor his guest. These are basic
ancient Abrahamic principles that religion is not just a treasure in
the soul, but a shining treasure that should
should be radiant upon neighbors family, all humanity.
So,
the solitary voyage of Hotjar and Izmail to the southern sanctuary
word in the very the Zahra. Such a lonely experience becomes the
basis for the unwell Cora, the mother of cities and the basis for
the HUD.
It's a little bit like the fasting day which we traverse through an
arduous desert and then we come to the congregation as well as to the
joy, the Farha of the ending of the fast.
But then we find also that this principle of neighborliness is
accentuated and underlined. And it's particularly significant in
Ramadan, because who is the neighbor? This idea of the jar
comes up a lot in the Hadith.
It's an important part of Islamic ethics, not just being nice to
neighbors, but the Hadith prefers the phrase it Cromwell jar to on
Earth a neighbor
and the famous saying from Al Hasan Basri says
that Lisa hosts no GRE careful ad, wala kin horsnell gre ft Madeline
either. Being a good neighbor doesn't just mean not doing things
that annoy them. Being a good neighbor means putting up with the
things that they do that annoy you.
It's part of the HTML part of the tolerance of being a neighbor,
that however loud their domestic arguments might be or playing
music like late at night or revving their engines late at
night. The believer tries to overcome that for the sake of good
neighborliness. And this is normal as a part of ethics in any
civilization but particularly emphasized in Islam.
Other interesting things that if you look at this question of
neighborliness in Islam come up and really emphasized by the
prophetic wisdom, men Candela hoo ha, man Candela who gr Onfi Ha,
oceanic Falaya bit who had Tejada who la
it's interesting in the modern sort of turbulent Brexit a
property market in England that the Holy Prophet alayhi salat wa
salam says, Whoever has a patch of land or a garden with a bat shared
boundary with a neighbor should not sell his land until he offers
it for sale to his neighbor first interesting principle because the
neighbor may have some particular advantage in gaining that land
natural lights or
an extension in his garden or whatever. And this might
facilitate things for him. So this is part of the prophetic
commandment part of the prophetic ethos of being actively benign. To
neighbors don't just sell your house to some stranger, but talk
to your neighbors about it beforehand, because it's an
important event in the life of the street in the neighborhood that's
going to impact upon them as well.
Similarly, another Hadith says that if your neighbor has a wall,
which has wooden part adjacent to your own site and have as long the
boundaries, then the neighbor has the right to enter your property
in order to fix that wall and to put in nails in that word. So
there's a lot of material about hospitals you are there that is
absolutely important and relevant in today's context and in the kind
of Ramadan environment. We need to think particularly about this. Too
often with our mosques. We find everybody comes out having done
their duty sweated through a hot tearaway for two hours, and they
come out and immediately they're laughing on the street. They're
slamming their car doors, revving their engines, calling out to each
other socializing in front of neighbors houses and this is not
Islamic.
Allison, would Mojo Waratah menjawab duck, taco Muslim and the
Holy Prophet says to be a good Muslim just says to be a Muslim
Be a good neighbor to your neighbors.
Tackle Muslim and if you want to be Muslim, be a good neighbor. So
what is the point of staying for those 20, rockers and for the
culottes, and for the ban afterwards, and for whatever else
might be going on having fasted arduously all day, if the last
thing that you do in the day is to slam the car door and to annoy the
neighbors, and if it's, you know, they have to get up early in the
morning to get at work, and they're being disturbed at 1130 12
o'clock at night, every night by those pesky Muslims. This is
unfortunate, the mosque could be a blessing to the neighborhood, not
a source of complaint and irritation is a very widespread
issue that we should respect neighbors.
But getting back to the question of who is the neighbor?
Is anybody who lives nearby a neighbor?
Well, essentially, yes, that is the Shetty opposition.
Enable doesn't have to be a Muslim, in order to be a neighbor.
So the Holy Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Kala either the
buffalo Sheraton, hotel, de two min Halle Jheri curl Yahudi de la
Mer up, the Holy Prophet said, when he heard that somebody had
slaughtered a sheep, have you given some to your Jewish
neighbor. And he says it's three times, it's as if he's going out
of his way to indicate the fact that even though there may be
problems with other communities in Medina, given the politics of the
situation, they're still your neighbors, and they still have the
right to share in the food that you are cooking. This is part of
traditional hospitality and neighborliness and Muslim cities
is, historically speaking, that he always share food, especially when
whole sheep or something has been slaughtered. And there's, there's
an abundance. So this this is important.
The interesting Quranic verses that speak of Well, Jerry, the
quarterback, well, Jerry job,
which is a little hard to understand, perhaps, the near
neighbor, and the far neighbor, or perhaps the strange neighbor of
Jared job.
And if you look at the element of Tafseer, they say different things
about this. Some say oh, it means somebody who is physically close
to you. And the fifth generally describes the neighbor in this
technical sense as the nearest 40 houses to your house.
Whereas the strange de Bourgh, the far neighbor is somebody from
further away, who has fewer hock because they're out of earshot.
And further, that's one possible interpretation. Another is that if
your neighbor is also a family member, or even that sense, then
they have more rights. But another sense is that it means the Muslim
neighbor and the non Muslim neighbor and this is accepted by
the amorphous Iran.
So there is the near neighbor and the strange neighbor but they're
all neighbors. They're all G Iran. They participate in this act of
hospitality, because after all, is this not what Cena Ibrahim kalila
did when the common Moncure all the strangers came to his tent,
and his wife's tent? For older some in home prefer, they were
afraid of them, but
they gave them the angel said in the fatted calf the best, even
though there were strangers, they could have been enemies who knows
who they were, but still the believers
need is for hospitality, which is this meaning of a Crom being
hospitable and honoring people. When you have a guest, you do not
just sit around and expect them to help themselves from the fridge.
Now you honor them, you become the servant you become the waiter as
well as the cook and you honor them and this is part of basic
hospitality. And this evidently applies irrespective of religious
boundaries. Naturally, there is a certain closeness if they're also
Muslims. There's a certain softness and mutual understanding
that is understandable and necessary, if their family
members, ditto. So this is the jar, daughter Lafferty ha Cook,
that they speak of the neighbor with three rights the neighbor who
is physically near, who is also a family member, and is also a
Muslim, but the others, Nahum Huck, why'd they also have a
right. So this is something that we need to think about. And it
doesn't just me not reading the car engine after tearaway. But it
means a whole load of other things. If you want to move into a
neighborhood, for instance, think about what impact that's going to
have not just on you, but on other people in the street. If you had a
loft, conversion, or to paint the color of your front door,
something different or anything like that, that neighbors might
have a say and try and find out what they like and consult with
them. And this is part of the adverb of synergy war in Islam
that is really important. And if you wish Islam to be loved, that's
going to be hard if they don't love you. Maybe it's the only
Muslim on the street. You have to be exemplary. You have to look out
for the neighbors who are perhaps alone. You have to keep an eye on
their children. You have to make sure that their pets are well
looked after.
The hadith says either
Mater calibre GRE Katha got data. If you throw something at your
neighbor's dog, you've hurt your neighbor.
It's just the dog gap that still have this hawk. This is another
thing that we need to bear in mind. We need to be good
neighbors, we need to be popular neighbors, we need to be caring,
thoughtful neighbors, we need to keep an eye on their houses when
they're away, feed their pets when they're away, watch out for their
cars, whatever it might be Neighborhood Watch, we should be
that as Muslims. And that way the reputation of the Almighty will be
enhanced and the same comes
same comes into play with mosques as well, with mosque design. If
you're designing a new mosque, make sure that you know how to
make the neighbors love it. That think that this is some kind of
defiant gesture of foreignness that you have to make and you
really don't care if they hate the look at the look of it each time
they cycled past. That's not possible do what beauty is
important in Islam, mosques historically a beautiful, try and
make sure that you do something beautiful that will make the
neighbors love the mosque that will make them love you will make
them love the dinar and will make them love the religion of Islam.
Don't build something cheap, tacky, defiantly different. That
is as it were a statement of what you take to be the superiority of
Kurdish culture, Turkish culture, Indonesian culture, whatever it
might be, because that's not good AdMob it's not good AdMob.
And we need to recognize this. So all of these are particularly
Ramadan principles because of the mystery of Ramadan, which puts us
in the crowd in a solitary state.
But it engages the soul in the life of others, it joined as
Ramadan deals that we really want to make sure that other people
have the dates and the water and we become servants, as we should
be all of the air but we as it were returned to the normal Muslim
fitrah at this time when we are properly engaging with a Quran of
others. And this is one of the subtle adabas the fasting month
the Curtis's of it and the Holy Prophet says edit the new Robbie
for apps and DB, my Lord gave me my AdMob and gave me beautiful
AdMob and the believer. So he does his Ibotta and has his are paid
and all of the other things. If he doesn't have the subtler things,
courtesy with others, with neighbors with family with friends
with Benny Adam with passers by. If he isn't a person of AdMob with
those people, then he isn't really getting it right. That the inward
transformation to the prayer of the fast invite him to has not
actually taken place because he's still Holly's.
Remember that rather alarming Hadith in which it was said Yarra
Salalah ena for learner 10 de su Manohar wata como Lail.
What took the G Rana there's this woman who fasts every day and
stays up at night, standing in prayer. But she says things that
annoy her neighbors and he says sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, here
he now she is in *.
So don't think that these other adverbs are insignificant. They're
very fundamental in our salvation. And we need to be people of good
adverb. And we need to be good neighbors, because we have to be
people of Dawa because this is a inevitable unavoidable aspect of
the Sunnah. We can never be indifferent to how we are seen,
because we can never be indifferent to how Allah's
religion which we represent is seen when people have Dawa all the
time particularly if we live in minority situations there may
Allah subhanaw taala make this Ramadan of fine adverb of concern
for others or feeding others of honoring others and of good
neighborliness Inshallah, so that we may be once again hater or
Metin, offering chattiness the best OMA raised up for mankind.
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