As for the hadiths, there are many regarding the rights of a Muslim over his brother, and you have heard some of them from the brothers and the sheikhs. Among the most comprehensive is what you heard at the beginning of this seminar, the saying of the Prophet May God bless him and grant him peace: “The example of the believers in their affection, mercy, and compassion for each other is like the body; if one part of it complains, the rest of the body responds with sleeplessness and fever.” This is how the believers are like one body; if one eye is in pain, the whole body suffers, if one hand is in pain, the whole body suffers. Thus, the believers are one body, and the believing women as well, all of them are one body.
Everyone knows the state of the body when it is afflicted with a disease in any part of it, the pain and fatigue spread throughout. This is a great example, a great example from the Prophet May God bless him and grant him peace calling for great solidarity, cooperation among Muslims and Muslim women, compassion, and helping each other when needed, assisting in paying off debts, protecting from injustice, striving in every good that benefits, and repelling every evil.
Among the most comprehensive hadiths is also his saying May God bless him and grant him peace in the authentic hadith: “The believer to the believer is like a building, each part strengthening the other,” and he interlaced his fingers. This great example, what did it leave out, this example and the one before it, “The believer to the believer is like a building, each part strengthening the other,” and he interlaced his fingers. All of you know the building strengthens each other, so if the believers and the believing women adhered to this meaning, they would have a great status, and they would deserve victory over all enemies, and they would achieve all the causes of happiness. “The believer to the believer is like a building, each part strengthening the other,” and he interlaced his fingers. This means that the believer repels evil from his brother, helps him in good, and supports him until he stands firm on the right path, and until he is not afflicted with any deficiency.
The Prophet May God bless him and grant him peace also said in an authentic hadith: “None of you truly believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself.” This is also comprehensive. “None of you truly believes” means the obligatory faith. If you feel any deficiency in this meaning, it is a deficiency in your faith and a weakness in your belief, until you love for your brother what you love for yourself. If you love for your brother to be poor, to be sick, to be beaten, or to be imprisoned, this is contrary to what is required of you. This is undoubtedly a weakness in your faith and a weakness in your loyalty to your brother because you are commanded otherwise. This results from the envy in the hearts and from the enmity, hatred, and disputes that occur. It is obligatory to treat this. It is authentically reported that the Prophet May God bless him and grant him peace said: “It is not permissible for a Muslim to forsake his brother for more than three days; they meet, and this one turns away, and that one turns away, and the best of them is the one who initiates the greeting.” When a person is afflicted with a dispute with his brother or with reasons that cause enmity between him and his brother, Allah has excused the three days because the soul may not be able to greet him in less than three days due to the dispute and enmity that occurred between them. Allah has excused the three days so that some of what is in the soul may be removed, and so that he may be able to initiate the greeting and return the greeting, and so that the relationship and love may return. This is from the mercy and kindness of Allah to His servants, may He be glorified and exalted.
It is obligatory for the people of faith, for all Muslims, to care about what Allah has commanded them, and what His Messenger May God bless him and grant him peace has commanded them, in fulfilling the rights between them, being patient with them, preferring what is with Allah, seeking His pleasure, and leaving what is in the souls of effects that may last except with treatment. The treatment is by remembering what is with Allah of reward, and what is in forgiving his brother, pardoning his brother, and returning to the right path of great good.
Among this is his saying May God bless him and grant him peace in the authentic hadith: “The Muslim is the brother of the Muslim; he does not oppress him nor does he abandon him.” He does not oppress him in wealth, in self, in skin, or in honor, nor does he abandon him to those who oppress him, meaning he does not forsake him. “Whoever is in the need of his brother, Allah will be in his need.” This is a great matter, and this is in the two Sahihs from the hadith of Ibn Umar, may Allah be pleased with them. “The Muslim is the brother of the Muslim; he does not oppress him nor does he abandon him. Whoever is in the need of his brother, Allah will be in his need. Whoever relieves a Muslim of a distress, Allah will relieve him of a distress on the Day of Resurrection. Whoever conceals (the faults of) a Muslim, Allah will conceal him on the Day of Resurrection.” In the second hadith narrated by Muslim: “Allah is in the aid of the servant as long as the servant is in the aid of his brother.”
