Loving and Helping

Every person, each servant of Allah Almighty has two positions or duties – one towards the Lord, and one towards other people.        Towards Allah their duty is to be Allah’s sincere servant without asking any reward in this world or in the next.

Towards other people, firstly we should love all Allah’s servants.    We must keep love in our hearts for them without making any difference between them. 

Allah created His servants clean;  originally they are lovely.   (You like your children, even if they do wrong things.)   Allah Almighty created all people originally clean of all badness and evils and kafir.   Their essence is clean – always.   Like a ring that falls into the toilet – you can take it out and wash it, and it will be clean again.

 The essence of mankind is endlessly precious, the most precious thing in the sight of Allah;   so we like all people because they are the servants of our Lord, and are their Lord’s creation.

That is our first obligation towards other people.   Our second obligation or duty is to help them as much as we can.   We must help everyone  in accordance with our Prophet’s hadith (saying) “Help all people, both oppressor and oppressed.”          When our Prophet  (peace be upon him) said this his followers asked “How can we help oppressors?”        The Prophet (peace be upon him) replied, “By catching their hands to prevent them from oppressing.”

 Our third obligation towards others is to think good of everyone.  We must not think bad thoughts about people.

 These three attitudes towards others, - to love them, to help them and to think good of them - are wanted from all believers – in fact from all people.  They are the sign of high character, acceptable in the sight of our Lord. Without them no one can be acceptable in the sight of their Lord.

When a person keeps these obligations they will be rewarded by their Lord.     All people will love them, help them and respect them.  This is the secret of success in our lives and the meaning of the hadith,  ‘amalukum um malukum.”  [You will be dealt with according to your actions]  So many sins may be forgiven by you keeping this.  Never harm anyone with your hand or with your tongue.

All non-muslims living within Islamic communities have the same rights as Muslims.  Our Prophet (peace be upon him) says,  “Anyone harming a protected servant is harming me.”  As we understand this saying so we must keep it.  Our Lord’s pleasure lies in this behaviour.

from   Mercy Oceans  pp156-157   Grammar Edited