Attitude towards neighbour Thursday, 18 August 2011 03:04

By Ramzi Al Saeed

The attitude of people in the month of Ramadan should be more righteous, seeking goodness and earning goodness, so they feed love and reap joy because Allah rewards goodness ten times in this month, and multiplies it, so the good occupy a high status in Islam and a great quality. The good manners are essential in religion, and necessary for the perfection of faith. Our Prophet, peace be upon him, set the first purpose of his mission and outlined curriculum in spreaching of Islam to establish principles of ethics in the hearts of the nation, so he put curriculum for the nation in the morals and he desired to assert the fair principles so the nation can learn it well, and it does not underestimate the value of manners and the value of compliance increases in their hearts. It is narrated by Anas that the Messenger of Allah peace be upon him said that  “a slave with a good manner will reach a great degree, and supervised homes hereafter, and he will reach with his bad manner to the bottom of hell.

But some people who associate themselves with religion understimate the importance of worship while seeing the general community perform it, at the same time they commit acts that are unacceptable to the good behaviour and true faith. The Prophet of Islam advised these people and warned them of divine punishment, and in this regard, it is narrated from the Prophet that a man said to him: O Messenger of Allah, so and so lady is famous for the large number of her prayers and fasting and charity, but she hurts her neighbours with her tongue. The prophet said: “There is no good in her, she is in the fire” then he asked: O Messenger of Allah, so and so lady perfoms written prayers and gives charity a little but she does not harm the neighbours. The Messenger of Allah said she is in heaven.

The Muslims whose hearts are filled with right faith in Allah Almighty and do good works, reform hearts and situations of this world and the horrors of hereafter, they have the assets and bases where they receive in it all what happens to them from the causes of happiness and joy and remove from them the causes of concern, worry and grief.

A man in the Islamic values​​ and in legitimate morals has duties towards his neighbor just like real relatives, this is a thing that draws attention, among these rights is to continue visiting him, and present gifts as an expression of love, and visit at the time of illness, and condolence at the time of misfortune, and aid when he needs, and keeping the harm away from him.

A conscious Muslim in the provisions of his religion is one who is the best of the people in the treatment of his neighbors and in doing goodness with them, and fear on them, because he is aware of the teachings of Islam and its rich commendations about the neighbor, and of the high status that Islam provided the neighbor in the hierarchy of human relations. Allah has commanded in his Holy book to be kind to the neighbor, and the relative neighbour is one who has with you the neighborhood with a bond of descent and religion, and the neighbor of side is one who does not have any link of descent with you, and the owner of the side is the one who is companion in a good thing, so everyone who lives beside you in a house has the right of neighborhood with you, though you do not have with him any glue of descent or association of religion.

In this there is a great honour for the neighbour in tolerance and law of Islam for humanity as the Prophet  recommends about the neighbor in general without looking at his relationship or his religion, emphasizing the importance of the neighborhood in Islam, the commandment about the neighbor reaches a level of importance and gravity that makes kindness for him and avoiding to harm him a sign of faith in Allah and the final day, and an inevitable consequence from its beautiful results, as narrated from the Prophet that those who believe in Allah and the Last Day should treat well with their neighbour, so the right Muslim whose heart and mind lighten with the guidance of the true religion and he worked according to the teachings of the Prophet peace be upon him is good with his neighbor in treatment, it is a man’s happiness to have a good neighbor and this is one of the pillars of happiness in life.

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