Fatima Barkatulla – Six Rights of A Musim Over Another Muslim

			But I wanted to start off today's session by reminding us of something that I feel that in our
community and our societies we've forgotten about. And that is about the rights of a Muslim, the
rights of a Muslim over another Muslim and the prophets, Allah Allahu alayhi wa sallam, he actually
spoke about this in the Hadith. We have reported by Abu Hurayrah, or the land who, in which the
messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, a Muslim has six rights over another Muslim.
And he said, The first is to greet him with Salam, when he is met. The second to answer his
invitation, when he invites him when he invites him for a meal when he invites him to come to his
		

			house, that he accepts to advise him when he seeks now see how when he seeks sincere advice when he
seeks counsel, that he advises him. The fourth is to bless him or to say your hammock, Allah when he
sneezes, and he says Alhamdulillah. The fifth is to visit him when he is sick. And the sixth is to
follow his janazah when he dies. And this hadith is in Sahih, Muslim Subhan Allah brothers and
sisters, if we just reflect on this, you know, some of these things we've stopped doing or we've at
least started to neglect the first to say salam to a fellow Muslim when you see them. And that means
whether you know them or not, you know, sometimes we only say salaam to somebody when we pass them
		

			by if we recognize them. But actually, as Muslims, we should be spreading the salam
		

			regardless of whether we know somebody or not, because the Salam is a DUA, isn't it? We're basically
asking Allah subhanaw taala to give peace to this person, and that Allah subhanaw taala will be with
this person. Right? Because a Salam is one of the names of Allah subhanho wa taala. And then when
the person says what aleikum wa salam, they're returning that dua. And of course, all of us want
peace, don't we? The second to invite to accept an invitation. So if somebody invites you to their
house for dinner, or to a wedding or something, they've invited you, it's actually the right as a
Muslim that you accept to the best of your ability, you should be trying to say, yes. Subhanallah,
		

			it takes quite a lot of organization and a lot of generosity to invite somebody. And I think it
shows you how important it is to honor the feelings of a Muslim, that we actually are told that it's
a right of a Muslim that we should accept.
		

			The third, to advise to give sincere advice if somebody asks you, if a fellow Muslim asks you for
advice, do your best to give the best advice, from your knowledge and from the resources that you
have. That you can. It's just a basic right of a Muslim. The next one was to say your hammock Allah
to say, may Allah have mercy on you, when a Muslim sneezes, and says Alhamdulillah.
		

			The next to visit him when he's sick. When a person is ill, you know when we go and visit them, it's
one of the biggest greatest deeds that we can do. You know, angels make dua for us.
		

			And then, you know, the last thing we can do for a fellow Muslim is when he has passed away, he or
she has passed away that we follow the janazah
		

			I hope we can revive some of these rights, all of these rights, in fact, and we can start taking
them seriously because I think what that will do is help to build our society back up, you know, to
being a society where we're not always just thinking about what people owe us, but actually thinking
about what we should be doing for other people. Right