Abdal Hakim Murad – Being Neighbourly

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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,

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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,

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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.

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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

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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

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