Ebrahim Bham – Rights of neighbours
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The speakers discuss the importance of fulfilling neighbors' rights and community in Islam, emphasizing the need to understand principles and principles of Islam to fulfill them. They give examples of how neighbors are viewed as part of the community, including a woman who talks about being a good person and a good neighbor. The speakers stress the importance of treating neighbors' rights, including being a neighbor, a Muslim, and a relative, in community settings and avoiding violent protests.AI: Transcript ©
My dear respected elders and brothers,
Allah
has given us a deen
in which we are supposed to fulfill the
rights of various individuals
and various
other rights that are upon us.
One such right which has been greatly emphasized
in our sharia
is the right of our neighbors,
and not only our neighbors, but our neighborhood.
This has been greatly emphasized in our sharia.
Islam
Now what is the meaning of our neighborhood?
What is the meaning of neighbors?
Normally, we all understand that the meaning of
neighbors is a person whose house is next
to you,
that that is what our understanding of neighbors
is. But in our sharia, it is much
more than that. It is not only the
person whose house is near you,
it is a person and the entire neighborhood.
They are also your neighbors.
Your people of your own tribe, they are
also part of your neighborhood.
In the holy Quran
has made mentioned.
Have written under the hyatt. I don't have
the time to give the explanation.
Even the entire people of your city, they
are part of your neighborhood.
The people who read with you in a,
they are part of your neighborhood. In Abu
Dawood Sharif,
there's a hadith that
said
that 40 houses are part of your neighborhood.
And then
said 40 houses in front,
40 houses at the back, 40 houses in
the right, 40 houses left.
And this is a hadith inside in Abu
Dhabi.
40 houses all around you, they are part
of your neighborhood.
Now after understanding what a neighborhood constitutes,
let us look at the importance
and the emphasis Islam has given
to fulfill the rights of your neighbors
and your neighborhood.
You see me Biljar Atas and unto Anahu
Sa'you work with them.
Hazrat Jibreel alaihi salatu wa salam emphasized the
right of neighbors
to such an extent
that I thought that he's gonna make them
part of the estate.
You
Allah. To make a wish now, I think
about it. You
will have so much of problems in our
inheritance with our family members.
If make them part of the of our
inheritance,
then what would have happened?
But just to give you the example with
regard to it, one hadith maybe
occurring, said 3 times
said,
He whose neighbor
is not safe from his harm.
He whose neighbor is not safe. When he
talks, he's fighting, and the whole neighborhood can
hear. Otherwise, he doesn't park properly.
He doesn't come into the house properly. When
he comes into the house, he makes a
dumb and a noise that the entire neighborhood,
they feel they feel hurt. They feel abused.
They feel their right is not being fulfilled.
He is not a believer
who whose neighbors are not safe from the
evil
of him.
Yeah, Allah. What a day. In 1 Hadith,
we all know this Hadith, very famous Hadith,
that he is not a believer
who eats his or
or and his neighbors are are hungry.
He's not a believer.
Can you imagine the high ideals of Islam?
By Islam to talk about Islam is very
easy. To make amal upon it is very
difficult. Maybe a Karim salallahu alaihi wasalam,
one day told,
and I read this hadith and said, you,
Allah, do we understand what Islam is? Do
we understand the ethics of Islam?
Oh, Abu Azar, when you cook curry,
when you cook shorba,
when you cook something,
then add water into it.
Add water into it.
So when you add water, you got more
curry. You'll be able to give your neighbors.
Add water into your curry, make more curry
so that you can share it with your
neighbors.
Subhanallah,
Look at the beauty of Islam with regard
to fulfilling the rights of your neighbors. If
you're cooking, cook a little bit more that
you can share with your neighbors.
Has made the criteria
for judging a person's character and conduct
by what their neighbors say about him. And
this makes sense.
If you want to know what a person
is, don't look at him from far.
What do the people of Durban know how
a person in Joburg is? They're staying so
far. They heard about him. They heard about
his name. Yeah.
They maybe spoke spoke to him over the
phone. Through the means of the phone, he
spoke nice to them.
Can they come to a conclusion
conduct and a character of a person by
staying far?
Someone is far away from you in another
vicinity, in another city. What does he know
about your conduct and character? Look at what
our beloved Nabiya Karim salallahu
alayhi
wa sallam
they say you are a good person, then
remember you are a good person.
Now you the whole world say you are
good, but the neighbors are swearing you. They
are abusing you. Then what is the use
of such a particular type of criteria of
goodness?
And then
said, When the neighbors say you are a
bad person, then you must know you are
a bad person.
So the criteria of judging
you is to see what the neighbors say
about you.
Don't become proud, but I'm just giving you
the criteria.
Never mind this.
Even with regard to
It is the evidence of the neighborhood that
will put you in Jannat or put you
in Jahannam.
Let me repeat it.
She
makes a lot of.
She keeps Rosa fasting,
But you Rasulullah,
she is not good with the neighbors.
She is swearing the neighbors. She is abusing
the neighbors. She is fighting with the neighbors.
What do you say with regard to such
a woman?
Said, if she is like what you say
and she continues like that, she's a Jahannam.
I'm using the words of Hadid in Musnabe
Ahmed. I'm not taking something out of my
own pocket.
She is in.
She is in.
There is a woman.
She does not make lot of.
We got no there's no option. There's no
compromise.
If you're fulfilling your you're not doing anyone
a favor. But
does less.
She does less.
She is good with the entire neighborhood.
When she speaks to them, according to the
Sharia, she speaks to people, she speaks well.
She's always helping the neighborhood. She's always doing
good.
What is your view about such a woman?
She's a janati.
So what your neighborhood tells you,
according to that, you are good or bad.
According to that, you are.
And this is what our beloved
has made mention with regard to the hadith.
And that is why we fight that in
our in our
throughout history, they made a great amount of
emphasis with regard to the rights of neighbors.
We like to listen to what the odds
and incidents, so let me make mention of
1 or 2 incidents.
So Mufti,
Tatir Usmani has written a book in Islahi
Muwis. His Muwis have been copied in a
book. So in that, there is one book
with regard to the rights of neighbors.
His name was Abu Hamza Sukari,
not Sukari,
His name was Sukari. They called him Sukari
because his words were so sweet.
When he used to speak, everyone used to
love to listen to him because his words
were so sweet. Because of that, he came
to be known as Abu Hamza Sukkari.
So Abu Hamza Sukkari had a difficulty in
his financial situation.
Because of that difficulty, he put up his
house for sale.
That he had to leave the neighborhood. He
had to go somewhere else, a very expensive
neighborhood, whatever. So,
they all came to him. They said, why
are you selling your house? A cubed house
by.
To them, the neighborhood people said,
We will give you money, but don't leave
our neighborhood.
Don't leave our neighborhood because your is so
good. Nowadays, I think sometimes you people know
that you want to leave, they'll give you
money to them.
Look at this.
People came to give him money. We'll give
you money if you don't leave us.
Is,
you know, his
neighbor used to sing, and he used to
be a sharrabi. He used to be drink
alcohol. And in the state of alcohol, he
used to sing and make a lot of
noise.
One day someone went to report him to
the police, he makes a lot of noise.
The police came and they took him away
and they put him in jail. They arrested
him.
Came home, no noise.
No person making a noise.
You know, very proud independent person. Proud not
in the sense of the couple, but independent.
So he went to the authorities.
He said,
you have got someone you may have arrested.
So now,
coming to the authorities, the old person to
him. Why did you come?
You arrested my neighbor.
You arrested my neighbor. Free him.
So the authorities freed the neighbor. So when
he came, said,
see, I feed you because you're my neighbor.
But this particular habit of yours is not
a good habit.
Imam gave you 50 dinners. Start off your
life afresh.
Don't take to alcohol.
He started his life afresh.
He became a student of,
and he became a.
A person who had alcohol
because of the way
used to treat him. So the we like
so let me give you one more.
Mufti Azizur Rahman was the first Mufti of
the other room deobed.
So Mufti Azizur Rahman Rahm Tullani,
before he used to go and teach hadith,
he used to go and he used to
go to the woman of the the neighborhood.
They all used to give him a small.
They used to give him a small pick.
Bring from us from the market this this
this this. So he used to tell him,
like, you know, he used to go and
buy the goods for them. He used to
go and buy the fruits and vegetable for
him.
Was a. He was
a.
So sometimes when he used to go and
buy the fruit and vegetable, he used to
bring wrong things. So the woman used to
say,
You brought something that is wrong. We told
you to bring tomatoes. You brought onions.
So Mufti azur Rahman used to say, okay.
Tell me what is wrong. He used to
go back to the marketplace and used to
go and help him.
A Mufti of Tioman,
and this is how you should treat the
people of his neighborhood. My dear respected brothers,
I'm just giving you an example.
And our ulama have written, in neighborhood, they
are There
are 3 types of neighbors you have. 1
who has got 3 rights over you. 3
rights.
He is a neighbor,
he is
a Muslim, and he's your relative.
You have to treat him extra kind because
he's your neighbor, plus he's a he's your
he's a person who is your relative and
he's a Muslim. Then there's a neighbor who
got 2 right through him.
And that means he's a Muslim and he's
your neighbor,
and one who's got one right over you.
He's a non Muslim, but he's your neighbor.
Fulfill his right also.
Islam
in the Quran in the beginning was suddenly
will jump.
A person who is a neighbor for you
for a short period of time.
Now you're sitting in a queue in the
home affairs,
or you're sitting in a queue in the
hospital. A person is with you for the
next 1, 2 hours.
In the Quran, there is his right
that in that 2 hours, you see to
it that you don't harm him.
You'll be good to him. You'll be kind
to him. A person is set is setting
next to you in the plane. He's going
to be in the plane according to your
flight, 5 hours, 6 hours, 8 hours. He's.
He also got a right over you.
That, you know, there was a sheep that
were being slaughtered in his house. So when
he was being slaughtered and they were cutting
the meat, Abdullah ibn Amr ibn had
great Sahabi. He said, see to it before
you give anyone.
Before you give anyone the meat, give to
the non Muslim neighbor.
Before you give anyone or give your non
Muslim neighbor the meat, before you give the
Muslim neighbor.
So this is what I was reading while
I was making, you know, the
research on this. So there was a there
was a a person in America who wrote
about the rights of neighbors. So he even
made mention of the name Muhammad Isla Ismael
Al Muqaddam.
He say one brother
that he was a neighbor to a non
Muslim,
and when he was a the neighbor went
for a holiday. So whatever used to come
to the neighbor's house, the newspapers, the pamphlets,
the mail,
you know, he used to he kept it
well. He also looked after the neighbor's house.
And after a while, when the neighbor came
back, he went to give him. He said,
see, when you were born, all of this
may came. I kept it for you. This
is yours. So he said, why did you
do it? To say Islam taught us to
look after the rights of the neighbors.
To in that book, which I read this
morning,
He became a Muslim because of what Islam
says about the rights of neighbors.
Just as we've got a right with regard
to our neighbors,
we also got a right of the community
we stay in.
It also has got a right over us.
You can come into a country or be
part of a country and say, I'm only
going to take from the country. I'm not
gonna give to the country.
The difficulties of this country.
Unemployment.
How much you can do too?
That is our right. And there are many
things in a country
that are not related to faith.
They are related to the community and the
society.
For example, crime. Crime is not something to
do with religion.
Crime has got to do with community.
If there is a community in which there
is no safety and security,
then the people of the community must come
together to try and solve the crime problem.
You know, when you argue, he gave this
example if a person is going from train
to one place to another place. No matter
what reason the person is going to another
place,
but while you are in that train, while
you are in that plane, it is in
everyone's interest that that particular journey must be
same.
He might be going for another reason, he
might be going for an evil reason, but
if you are sharing a space,
then you or everyone must put their efforts
to the wheel to be able to make
the journey safe.
In this country we are,
If you look at the history of Islam,
and
look we don't read our history.
And I'm saying that we don't read our
history, therefore, we can't take lessons from our
history.
Wherever Muslims went in the past, wherever they
went
this I can take a custom on this.
Wherever Muslims went, they made such an impact
where they stayed,
that the people there were impressed with the
way Muslims stayed with them.
Why? Because the Muslims treated them well. Muslims,
Indonesia,
they say today the biggest Muslim country is
Indonesia.
Indonesia, I'm going to go to the Berbers.
So we have a responsibility
to the country we are staying,
And you can't just go say, nay, we
are staying in this country. We have no
responsibility. You have a responsibility.
And this is something that you must do.
Has
a
he may mention, and I I wrote it
down. To live in an enclosed environment,
simply content with your prayers and fasting,
apathetic to the people and society you're living,
never introducing them to Islam
and your own personal qualities,
then remember,
when there is any type of protest that
happened
and there is any type of
uprising that happened,
you will not be safe.
They will stand up against you. What did
you do to make them to
make them turn towards you with goodness?
And I make mention with it, although this
is in passing,
You are part of this country,
and because many of us are from the
Indo Pakistani,
I just like to make mention. Yeah. Just
in December this year, 14
of India,
great, great of India, 14 including.
The the the principle of
to show people you are part of this
country.
So in another 2 weeks time, we have
whoever we is, we must go. I can't
say from this member who you must vote
to. I can't do that. Maybe it's not
the right thing for me to use the
Minka to say that. But this much I
will say,
whoever supports Israel,
whichever political party supports Israel against our Palestinian
brothers and sisters,
and who do not say anything against the
genocide,
you cannot give vote to such
Now you can look at other options. You
can maybe take a reason.
Has written, sometimes you can vote for a
party for a specific reason.
It doesn't mean you
you agree with everything of that party. So
sometimes you vote for a party because of
one reason. Whatever that reason, whatever your principle
is, maybe it will be a good effective
opposition,
or maybe it has done good to Palestine.
I'm not saying anything.
That is something you can say. If you
are doing it for that reason, it doesn't
mean you agree with everything. Sometimes you vote
for specific reason. The other things which are
happening in our country,
crime, corruption,
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