Abdal Hakim Murad – Who Are Our Neighbours
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Famous Hadith narrated by Buhari a Holy Prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam he says,
Whoever believes in Allah and the Last of days, let him honor his
neighbor. And then another version of the same Hadith and in some of
the really big hadith of Islam, the Holy Prophet alayhi salatu
salam obviously said the same thing many times in slightly
different versions, but it doesn't matter. Let him honor his guest.
You know, these are two ancient human virtues. Hospitality.
neighborliness
is the religion particularly of these Abrahamic virtues, even in
the desert, you're going to have neighbors, although there may be
temporary,
said Abraham kalila Alayhis Salam, strangers come to his tent in the
desert that's usually a source of worry. Those Alton no police, no
ID Who are they? They are formal non cut on an unknown people.
But what does he do? He brings for them the fatted calf, age Lin
Sameen.
This is essential to our ethos, the guest receives the best and
down the centuries, this has been part of the Muslim way of
organizing our homes, we are there to honor not ourselves so much as
for others were the hosts it doesn't matter so much, when the
guest should not make such a fuss. Either. We have this whole
literature of edible life which contains beautiful things.
So this Abrahamic virtue is connected to this relationship to
the other who is in a position of some vulnerability.
And the neighbor.
Exactly is the neighbor, the guest that's clear enough but the
neighbor
it's important to have some sort of definition because it can even
be a legal category
that the called the can enforce things on a neighbor that he can't
enforce on somebody who is far away the neighbor has certain
rights.
Now how do we understand the neighbor who is my neighbor,
particularly in our times where most of our engagement with other
human beings might be online, the people we get to know best and who
we feel have the most rights over us in terms of reliable good
behavior might be on the other side of the planet, we may
actually never see them in the flesh,
who is actually living in the flat next door or the flat above. We
might not even know their names.
But the real name of the physical neighbor is one with whom you can
have a better and a different distinctive kind of relationship.
There is a connection the heart has with the spouse with the child
with the parent with the religious fraternity with the neighbor each
of them has
A particular quality
and the neighbor is one of those human metabolisms. The one you
talk to over the garden fence is not really the same as the one
you're chatting to on WhatsApp who's in New Zealand it's a
different kind of engagement and in Islam it's important
so then how does the definition exactly work? Is it the guy next
door but the guy two houses down? Where does it stop?
Well, verse in the Quran speaks of, well, Jerry will koruba Well,
Jerry job, the near and the far neighbor,
which seems to mean the neighbor who is possessed of closeness
literally, and the one who is strange that all of that say,
well, maybe there's a definition for us in this. But what it means
is contested. Is the near neighbor in this first somebody who's
related to you. There seems to be justification for that in in the
Sunnah. The Holy Prophet says sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, LG
Iran or Falletta. There's three categories of neighbors Jaren la
Hacohen Wahid ger en la hoo ha con or ger en la Hautala to HK HK, as
a neighbor who has one right over you a neighbor who has two rights
over you a neighbor who has three rights over you. And that is
Eldar, will Muslim law Rahim. Somebody who is a neighbor, and a
Muslim and a relative, that means they have particular expectations
of you, and rights over you, but even the one who is not in those
categories, still has those rights. And that seems to give
some justification for that interpretation, but others would
say it's the Muslim neighbor and the non Muslim neighbor. And the
Roger will humbly says this is the correct interpretation. The non
Muslim neighbor. It's in the Hadith
sound Hadith.
From Abdullah bin us and the whole Abdullah Abdullah house under
whatever has Sheraton the fall Allah Who Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam *, day two min highly Jheri curl Yahudi a man
wants slaughter the sheep, the Holy Prophet says, Have you given
some of it to your Jewish neighbor? The left Mr. Rock he
says it three times so the non Muslim is also the neighbor in the
meaning of these immense Hadith.
Others amongst the jurists say it's the nearest 40 houses to your
house,
the kind of Mahalla the urban district, which was an important
social unit in medieval Muslim cities and might even have gates
that would be locked at night and mahalo was a was part of what you
belonged to. But in any case, the neighbor is really important and
this continues to be important because however online we may be
we always have physical neighbors and we are required to be good to
them and mazing Hadith which is in Buhari, sometimes in Muslim
countries, you see this sort of pinned up next to sort of lobbies
and lifts and so forth layers energy riilu You'll see me build
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Gabriel kept on insisting on goodness to neighbors until I
thought that he would give him give a neighbor a share in one's
inheritance.
That's a big deal, not just the sister and brother in law,
whatever it might be that calculation but the neighbor as
well. That will be mathematically practically difficult. But it's
interesting in this hadith that urging is coming from Gibreel to
age an angel of Revelation. That's kind of unusual for Gibreel to be
making a fickle moral point is hominid Ye is the one who brings
the revelation but here he is urging something specific. Now the
indication of how important it might be.
So many Hadith if you look for them, another one famous rather
abrupt and alarming one.
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there's this woman, they said jasola this this woman who fasts
every day, and who prays every night, but she upsets her
neighbors. And as gossip something Allah He phenom, he said, she's in
the fire. That's abrupt. He knows the circumstances.
And this indicates that the outward forms of religion are
there for a purpose.
The prayer 10 her annual fascia he will noncardiac the prayer is that
which protects us which prevents us from Ugly speech and actions
and unacceptable things. And the fast is supposed to be jhana and
protection and we're coming into that now. We didn't know
particularly that backbiting those other ethics
To listen, errors of the tongue are one of the things that kind of
break the fast. Sophia and authority one of the earliest
Muslims had that in his book, a lever to see docm. back biting up,
fast is broken. Try again next year. That's how serious it is. So
these outward forms are there to inculcate an inward reality of
perfection.
Each time we finished the prayer, we should be better.
Maybe we've done Who knows 10,000 prayers, are we 10,000 times
better than when we started. If not, then we're a little bit like
the guy who I guess buys a new car and spends a lot on the car and
sits in the car and moves the steering wheel, but he doesn't
actually get it to move
might get into it five times a day, kind of enjoying the nice car
and smell of the fresh furniture and his neighbors are watching
because there's other cars around and they're all looking at each
other. But he's not actually getting it to move. Sometimes we
can do that with the Pro and the fast, which is kind of stupid.
Missed opportunity, Allah is giving us these amazing vehicles
for our progress. But we're kind of too preoccupied with the fetco,
who's looking or daydreaming, or whatever it is actually to put the
key in the ignition to get the thing to work, which is
unfortunate. So this is the case with this woman.
She becomes damnable despite her good actions.
Because of this, what she's saying what she's doing to her neighbors.
This is clearly an important thing in Islam that forms of worship for
the a bad at our means to an end. And we need to remember that as we
make the NIA not just I'm gonna praise her for rock as etc, Allahu
Akbar.
There's more that she wrote about in our very inward preconditions
for the validity of the prayer that in Ramadan in particular, we
need to be able to work on. Many people gain nothing from their
fast, ELO jaw or atoss except hunger and thirst. We will get
that just about but what else is the Holy Prophet alayhi salatu
salam suggesting that we should get from our fast? Why just get
the pain without the gain. A lot of people do that. A lot of
praying without really improving without this navy until fascia on
one car actually taking places this is significant. That in our
engagement with others, the reality of our a bad comes to the
surface has the NASS been subdued? Is the raw liberated is the
recollection of the Mirage somehow present? Are we rising up in our
actions or not?
So these are the fruits of faith, horsnell HELOC good character. And
this is universal. Even if it's the 41st house down the street,
they still have rights. Even if it's somebody tapping a keyboard
in New Zealand, they still have rights online. AdMob is important.
Now in a sense in the global village, we're all giran we're all
neighbors, once the telephone was invented that was that in terms of
the traditional neighborhood, sometimes we neglect our neighbors
we're all guilty of that the Holy Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam his Ways the Way of fitrah is calling us back to these
ancient forms of humanity and common life and getting us to pay
attention to who is actually around us and they do have rights.
The whole question of the property market for instance, which is one
of the most voracious and nasty dog eat dog aspects of the modern
economy full of predators would look very different if we actually
read some Hadith
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It's a kind of prophetic commandment, whoever whoever has a
neighbor to his garden or his enclosure, his plot of land should
not sell that plot of land without offering it first to his neighbor.
In other words, the neighbor isn't surprised by the for sale sign
outside and then it's survival of the richest No, the neighbor has
certain rights and you should offer it to the neighbor first.
Maybe you can make use of it. Maybe it's a chance for him to put
in an extension or to whatever it might be. That is his right.
lejana under and yadgir Allah Akasha button Fiji dari, another
Hadith many of these things are from the Hadith down to earth, but
still absolutely relevant. If your neighbor wants to change something
in his wall, and the wall perhaps is a party wall. So hard for him
to get to your side of it, but he wants to change it. The Holy
Prophet says in a very emphatic way you shouldn't stop him
from doing that, if you're putting a new piece of wood or a beam in
his war nowadays, it could be
any other number of things. And these are part of the Add add of
douar. In Islam horsnell ger. To be a beautiful neighbor is one of
the essential o'clock of Islam that in our atomized online,
individualistic age, we are losing sight of
sort of a story in the press. And it could be millions like this.
But this was a very extreme case. They found an old age pensioner
somewhere in Germany, who had died alone.
But everything was paid by direct debits. And
nobody noticed for three years. He died in front of his television.
The television blew up or something after a couple of years.
Then he was found in an apartment building full of people and babies
and people coming and going and going online. But he was
forgotten. And George mom, Bo, the social critic, calls ours the age
of loneliness. There are people out there who don't have anybody
very much because they just get everybody's busy.
We need to overcome that because these prophetic commandments these
commands from Gabriel himself are couched as commandments. It's not
just a kind of nice icing on the cake bit of our o'clock. It's
essential that we do this.
These are prophetic commandments. So we should be people who watch
out for neighbors, people who put up with what the neighbors do.
Has an old bacillary used to say Lisa horsnell gr. Careful ad, or
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good neighborliness is not just not doing things that annoy your
neighbor
kicking a football into his greenhouse or whatever, it's not
just about that, but it's putting up with the bad stuff that they
do. Play Music later night. The roses are going all over the
boundary, whatever it might be, you put up with that within
reason, of course, but this is part of her synergy you are so in
our atomized, individualistic,
social world
no such thing as society according to Margaret Thatcher, but of
course there is for as long as we're social animals. We always
have people we are near those people should also be people who
are dear and this is part of the Prophetic Mission. So as we move
into Ramadan, Inshallah, we'll think about these things. We'll
think about people who,
breaking the fast alone people who are neglected, make sure that we
know those who are in our groups, those who are in our neighborhood,
and look out for the people who seem to be shopping alone, the old
lady who now has to buy her weekly grocery from a robot. She doesn't
even have the counter girl to help her any longer. Loneliness is
becoming more and more acute. So in sha Allah as we go into
Ramadan, we will make this intention to revive this important
part of the Sunnah in sha Allah to become as we enable others, more
noble ourselves in sha Allah Hakuna commonly heard it was Dr.
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