Mustafa Khattab – Rights of a Muslim on Other Muslims
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Today, inshallah, we'll be talking about the rights
of a Muslim
on the Muslim community,
on his brothers and sisters in the community.
We said a long time ago that there
are 3 different levels of brotherhood in Islam.
The lowest
is brotherhood
in humanity.
The second one is brotherhood
in blood, your biological brothers and sisters.
Number 3, and this is the highest one,
the brotherhood in Islam,
your brothers and sisters in the community.
We said a long time that the the
companions of the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
the Sahaba, they came from different backgrounds.
Some of them were Persian.
Some of them were Arab. Some of them
were African. Some of them came from Europe
and different places,
but they were treating one another with respect,
and they were living in harmony and brotherhood.
And they knew that they have rights
on each other, toward each
We live here in Canada, all of us.
We came from our countries back home, 10000
miles away, 15,000 miles away.
So we need each other.
We need to treat each other as brothers
and sisters in this community. We cannot live,
we cannot survive, we cannot succeed
without helping each other.
You are the Lord of the the world.
So Allah would say, didn't you know that
your brother so and so feel sick and
you didn't visit him? Had you visited him,
you would have found a reward
with him.
Oh, my servant, your brother was in need,
I was in need, and you didn't help
me. So the servant would say, oh, how
can I help you? Then Allah will say,
didn't you know that your brother
was desperate? Your brother was in need and
you could help him, but still you didn't
give him a hand. Had you helped him,
you would have found the reward with him,
and so on and so forth.
So we will talk briefly about some of
these rights. There are so many of them,
but we'll mention a few of them because
of the time limits.
We'll start with the 6 rights of a
Muslim on his brothers and sisters in the
community.
So the prophet says in this, with the
Khadim al Bukhari al Muslim.
A Muslim has 6 rights on his Muslim
brother.
So number 1, if you meet him, your
brother give him salaam. And every time we
could use the word he or him in
the following ahadith, it means he or she.
Because the Muslim sister has rights on her
sisters too.
So when you meet your brother, give him
salaam.
And salaam is not just a word you
say with your tag, it has meanings.
Because if you give someone salaam, you cannot
betray them and you cannot hurt them in
any way. Otherwise, you say it but you
don't mean it. So So when you see
him, give him salaam.
Number 2, when he invites you to his
house,
honor his invitation
and go to his house. So this is
number 2. Number 3,
when he asks you for advice,
you have to give him advice if you
can.
Some people, they don't have the knowledge or
the ability to give advice, but when people
ask them for advice, they are ashamed to
say, I don't know. So they just say
anything. Go this way, and they trick you.
So you have to give nasiha if you
know how to give nasiha.
Number 4, if the person sneezes and says,
Alhamdulillah, tell them, You hamkumullah. It's dua'at that
Allah
will have mercy on them.
And number 5,
if the person falls sick
in a barillah, visit him.
You visit your brother or your sister in
their house and push them good and make
du'a for them.
And you have to follow the adab of
the dua, or the adab of Ziyyah or
Ayatul Bari visiting the sick.
You give them hope
that, Masha'Allah, you look good you look good
today. Insha'Allah, you will recover soon and make
dua for them. Some people when they go,
they stay for hours, man. And the sick
brother wants to go to the restroom, will
get medication if they can. And he keeps
telling them stories and stories, so much so
that the sick brother would ask Allah to
to take them.
So you leave them alone.
Or
you you make them lose hope in life,
man. You tell them, oh, man. You look
horrible.
Hopeless case. You got cancer, man? I don't
know anyone who got cancer and survived. Now
you will die. I'm telling you. You will
die.
My neighbor died of cancer. His wife died
of cancer. My cousin died of con hopeless
case. You will die.
So what are you doing, man? You are
you are killing your brother, so you have
to follow the adhan of Ziyyah and give
them hope and make du'a for them.
And number 6, and this is the last
one,
if they die, follow them.
And every time I say this hadith, people
misunderstand
me. They say,
follow it means die after them. It doesn't
mean this. It means when they die, follow
their funeral.
Pray Jannada for them and go to the
graveyard
to bury them. This is the meaning of
the Hadith.
So
number 2 number 7 in this collection, in
this list, you love for your brother what
you love for yourself.
You don't take the good for yourself and
give them the junk.
And by the same analogy, you hate for
them what you hate for yourself. This is
the meaning of the Hadith.
So this is the meaning of the Hadith.
And the meaning is, if you and your
brother apply, both of you, for a job,
and he gets the job to feel happy
for him as if you yourself got the
job.
You don't
cry and pray to Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
that their car will break down or he
will die, so you'll get the job. This
is not loving for him what you love
for yourself. One time, I'm gonna I was
giving a lecture
to students, and I told him after the
talk about brotherhood and loving for others, what
you love for yourself, I'm gonna throw some
candy. Take the candy and give it to
the person next to you. They'll say, okay.
Okay.
They almost killed each other off.
They wanted to take the candy for for
themselves. So it is easy to say it,
but when it comes to practice,
not all of us are able to do
it. And this is jihad against yourself, against
your lower self.
Number 3, you are not allowed to roam
or deal unjustly with your brother and sister.
Dealing unjustly with people in Haram, whether it's
in regards to a Muslim or a non
Muslim. A Muslim has to be just
because at the end of the day, you
are dealing with Ruqbil Aalim. You're not dealing
with the people.
The prophet says in this within the khadib,
the Sahid Muslim,
the Muslim is the brother
or, for that matter, the sister of other
Muslims.
A Muslim is not allowed to abuse his
brothers and sisters.
A Muslim is not allowed to look down
upon his brothers and sisters. And a Muslim
is not allowed to let down his brothers
and sisters. Everything
that belongs to a Muslim, his blood, his
money, and his dignity is haram for other
Muslims.
The same meaning is mentioned in another hadith
in Bukhari and Muslim. The prophet says that
the Muslim is the brother of his Muslim
brother.
He shouldn't look down upon his brother, abused
him, or let him down.
And if a Muslim
gives help to another Muslim in this life,
Allah will help you.
And if you remove a hardship from your
Muslim brother or sister, Allah will remove the
hardship from you on the day of judgement.
If you recover your brother and sister in
this life and don't expose them, if they
do something wrong, Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, will
cover you in the next life.
You are not allowed this is number 4.
We conclude with it. A Muslim is not
allowed to scare
or terrify his Muslim brother.
And for that matter, any other human being.
You are not allowed to scare them or
terrify them even if you are joking.
And this authentic hadith is Sahih Abi Dawood.
The prophet, salaam, in the Sahaba, they were
traveling together.
And someone one of them fell asleep, and
he left his stuff next to him, his
shoes or his bag. So some of the
sahaba, they wanted to jump with him, they
took his stuff and they hid it away.
So when he woke up, he looked around,
his stuff is not there, his stuff is
gone. So he was scared, what happened? Where
is my stuff?
So they started to laugh. So the prophet
says that Muslim is not allowed to terrify
or scare his brother even if he or
she is joking.
When we were astute, some of us were
evil.
In some cases, the brother would be asleep,
and they put matches between his toes, and
they light the matches, and the brother would
wake up terrified.
In another example, we have some medical students
with us, and some of them were evil.
They used to put the bones and the
skull under the pillow of 1 of the
students. And in one case, Mawlai, that brother
got so terrified, he wanted to jump from
the 4th floor. He was screaming at night.
How many times you heard of a Muslim
who called his Muslim brother on the 1st
of, April,
April food, and he tells him, okay. I'm
sorry to tell you I love you, but
I'm sorry to tell you that your mother
just died.
So the brother gets scared, and, eventually, they
tell him, okay. We got you on this
one. It's April school.
So you are not allowed to
So if joking and terrifying Muslims, even jokingly,
will make you accountable on the day of
judgement, what about killing Muslims, shedding their blood,
making babies orphans, and making ladies widows?
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will ask those who
are in charge in our country's bad form.
Someone was thrown in jail for no reason.
Why didn't you give him justice?
A lady lost her husband. Why?
A baby lost his father. Why?
The masaj were destroyed. Why?
The masaj were burned. Why? So Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala will call these people accountable on
the day of judgment. That's Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala
So with the help of Allah
and with the assistance of the administration of
the Masjid, we started a few months ago
this project we called Home Dawood.
So what happens, basically, we receive invitations from
some of the youth in the community. They
never come to the Masjid. They don't pray.
And some of them, they do drugs, they
drink, dating, and all that stuff.
So they are Muslims just by name. They
invite us. We go to their homes. We
give them dawah. We give them naseeha.
We talk to them about the challenges facing
Muslims.
Inshallah, we can visit them on Sunday after
salatul bay. All you need to do is,
talk to, the reception of the Masjid, and
we will arrange for a meeting. That's Allah
and