Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Add Water and Share Your Neighbour (Hadith Commentary from Zad alTalibin)
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The speaker discusses the importance of being considerate of neighbors when preparing dishes and sharing food. They stress the need to be mindful of others' feelings and not force them to buy extra meat. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of giving food to neighbors who are not on their own schedule.
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The next hadith is very similar in to do with Coco called Eva. The
next hadith is very similar to do with her culinary. But it's to do
with again, considering somebody else's feelings. And
specifically, if you've got somebody who's related to you then
because you feel that you're bound to them through blood relationship
and kinship, you're probably going to do more than you would do for a
neighbor that's not related to you. That's why look at what the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is saying. He's saying that
either Tabatha Mara cotton
for akhira ma what the ad G ironic
when you prepare some broth or soup, meaning when you prepare a
dish at home, right. Now, when you prepare a dish at home, there's
certain ingredients that go into it.
And normally, you buy things according to what your family
needs. Sometimes, if you're not very well off, then you have to do
everything according to a certain measure. The solids especially
water is quite abundant most of the time, except in places where
there's drought and so on. But what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam is saying when you prepare some broth or soup, add
more water and be thoughtful of your neighbor. So saying that
we're not going to force you that you have to buy another two
kilograms or two pounds of
meat, you know, the best cuts, and you have to give that to your, you
know, you have to cook spare ribs. And you know, you have to, you
have to cook all these T bone steaks and stuff like that for
your neighbors, of course, if that's what your business you're
in, or if that's what you do. And if that's what you know, you have
the ability to you can do that. But this is saying that even if
you're just cooking a few bones and you're making some soup, you
know, bones with soup, you know, chicken soup, or something like
that, you don't have enough, that's fine, just so that you
could be considerate of your neighbor and show a sense of
goodwill, and create greater harmony and peace and
understanding and love between yourselves.
Increase the water, make it more watery, and give them some.
Obviously, it's not saying do that, in the sense that if you've
got the ability to give them a proper dish, so don't become
literalist here, and go to your neighbors and say, and give them
you know, colored colored water, soup, water, right and say, This
is what it says in the Hadith. It's saying that as a last resort,
it's saying that as a last resort, that if you can't do anything,
then at least do this and be considerate of them. And this
doesn't matter whether you got Muslims or non Muslim neighbors.
This is just neighbors because whether you've got non Muslim or
Muslims, you're living next to them. And there is a certain rate
that has to be observed with that.
This is not to say that you have to give it every day. Because
imagine if you had to share food every day,
you probably have to throw out a lot eventually. Because if every
family were sharing every day, then it would be an issue you
usually once every two weeks, three weeks, whatever, something
like that if you've got cooked something special, cook a bit
extra, be a bit thoughtful and gone give them some
don't give it the next day after when you think we've you know
cooked a lot we've eaten today. And tomorrow it's going to be kind
of stale. Now. You know when I'm gonna eat this for days and days,
let's give some to the neighbor right now. That should not be the
way to do it. Not that you can't do it, but I mean it should not be
the way that we look at this. We look at this from the perspective
that we do it from the beginning so we give it to them fresh