How does a true Muslim treat the people around him? 1. Parents and the elderly: Your Lord has commanded that you worship none but Him, and do good to parents. If one or both of them reach old age with you, do not say ‘Fie’ to them, nor chide them, but speak to them a generous word … and say, My Lord, have mercy on them as they brought me up when I was little. (17:23-24). 2. Other Near Relatives: Do good to the near relatives. (4:36) 3. Children: Do not kill your children for fear of poverty - We (Allah) provide for them and for you. (17:31) A man came to the Prophet (Pbuh) and said, `You kiss children but we do not kiss them’. The Holy Prophet said, `Do I have any control over you if Allah has taken away mercy from your heart’. (Bukhari) 4. Orphans and destitute children: Maintain the orphans out of their property and clothe them and give them a good education. Test them when they reach the age of majority, and if you find them to be mature, hand over their property to them. (4:5-6) 5. Poor and needy: Righteous is he who … gives away wealth out of love for Him to the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and to those who ask and to set slaves free. (2:177) 6. Neighbours: Be good to … the neighbour belonging to your people and the alien neighbour. (4:36) He is not a believer who fills his stomach while his neighbour is hungry. - Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) 7. Wives/Husbands: Of His (Allah’s) signs is that He created spouses for you from yourselves so that you might find quiet of mind in them, and He put between you love and compassion. (30:21) The best of you are those who are kindest to their wives. - Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) 8. Employers/Employees: Allah says: There are three persons whose opponents I shall be on the Day of Judgment … (the third is) the person who employs a servant and receives fully the labour due from him, but does not pay his wages. (Bukhari.) 9. Animals Whoever tills a field, and birds and beasts eat from it, it is an act of charity. - Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) 10. Authorities: Allah commands you to make over trusts (or positions of trust and authority) to those worthy of them. (4:58) 11. Muslims: You will see the believers in their having mercy for one another, and in their love for one another, and in their kindness towards one another, like the human body: when one limb is ailing, the whole body feels it, one part calling out the other with sleeplessness and fever. - Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) None of you has faith until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself. - Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) 12. Those who abuse Muslims: Bear patiently what they (abusers) say. (20:130) Disregard their annoying talk. (33:48) When you hear Allah’s messages disbelieved in and mocked at, sit not with them until they enter into some other talk. (4:140) And if you invite them to guidance, they hear not; and you see them looking towards you, yet they see not. Take to forgiveness and enjoin good and turn away from the ignorant. (7:198-199) 13. Enemies: Repel evil with what is best, when lo! he between whom and you there is enmity will be like a warm friend. (41:34) 14. NonMuslims: Allah does not forbid you concerning those people who do not fight you because of your religion, nor expel you from your homes, that you show them kindness and deal with them justly.… Allah forbids you only concerning those people who fight you for your religion, and drive you from your homes and help others to expel you, that you make friends of them. (60: 8,9) 15. Mankind generally: O mankind! We have created you from a male and a female, and made you into races and families so that you may know each other. The most honoured of you in Allah’s sight are those who best keep their duty. (49:13)
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