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"We're going to take the Bible to learn from the Bible." They didn't say that. They believed in all aspects of Islam. All they said was: "Since Rasulullah died, we're not giving any zakat anymore. We're keeping our money because we need our money. We're not going to render the zakat to him as we used to do with Rasulullah. We want our money."

Abu Bakr said, "Wallahi, I'm going to fight them."

All of the companions came together. Abu Bakr is the most wise, the most knowledgeable, and the best from amongst them. But despite that, they don't have to follow his position if he doesn't present the evidence. It is not evidence, "Ya Abu Bakr, you are better than us, ya Abu Bakr."

How many times did Rasulullah say, "I came and Abu Bakr and Umar came. I went and Abu Bakr and Umar went. I believed and Abu Bakr and Umar believed"? How many times we have? All the time we hear that. But his statements alone are not evidence in the religion.

So they took him to task. "Abu Bakr, how can you fight people who say, 'La ilaha illallah Muhammad Rasulullah'? They're doing everything in the religion. They're just sinning by not giving the zakat."

Abu Bakr said, "Wallahi, I will fight anyone who withholds from me the rope. Just the piece that ties up the camel's leg to keep him from moving. If they used to give that to Rasulullah, they refused to give it to me, I'm going to fight them. If they give me the camel for zakat, but they hold back the rope that ties his leg up, I'm going to deal with them. Because they have to give us even the rope."

That's the deen of Islam. So they were called the Murtaddeen. When they didn't give the zakat, they're not our brothers, we're going to fight them.

Important Lesson from the Murtaddeen

Ikhwan, a very important point as it relates to the Murtaddeen. The Murtaddeen, they were not the people of Madinah. They were not the people of Mecca.

The people of Madinah, they are in the masjid of Rasulullah, and they're around the scholars of Rasulullah. They're with all of those scholars getting trained and they're learning. The people in Mecca, they were also around the scholars in Mecca - Abdullah ibn Abbas and other than him.

The Murtaddeen, they were the people who lived far away in the desert, in the Badiyah. Which teaches us something.

When you live far away from the gatherings of the Muslims, and the masjid of the Muslims, and the Muslim population, at a time when you should not practice isolation - there's a time when we should break off from the people. Other than that time, you should connect yourself to the people.

Hadith (Sunan at-Tirmidhi Hadith 2507):

As he says, peace be upon him:

"The believer who mixes with the people and he's patient with their annoyances is better than the one who doesn't mix with the people and he's not patient with their annoyances."

Wallahi, when we mix with each other, as the brother said, we're going to annoy each other.

The Example of Imam Al-A'mash

The man he makes salah, Imam Al-A'mash. Imam Al-A'mash, his name is Sulaiman ibn Mihran. He's one of the tremendous scholars of Islam. They say that Al-A'mash was the first person to start really putting together the hadith in the place that he came from.

They described him as being a bit anti-social because he didn't like dealing with the people. Imam Al-A'mash had a dog that he used to put in the front of his door. When the people wanted to come to get the hadith, his dog would start barking and keep the people away.

The people came one day, Imam Al-A'mash was crying. They asked him, "Why are you crying?" He said, "The one who used to order with the good and prevent the evil, he has died. My dog died, preventing me from the people."

He used to make the salah. And after the salah, he made the dhikr. He was a man who was really focused on this dhikr. People would come to him. "We came all the way from the other side of the world. We want to ask you about this hadith."

Imam Al-A'mash would just look at the people and just continue to make the dhikr. As if to say, "How can you interrupt the man after he's doing his salah and then he makes his dhikr?"

So we're going to get annoyed and we're going to annoy people when we come together with them. But that annoyance, we just have to be patient with it.

So the Murtadun, those people who apostatized, they were the people who lived in the desert, in the Badiyah. They were far away. And when you live far away, you're going to have problems.

Hadith:

"Men beda jafa" - Rasulullah said, whoever lives in the Badiyah, in the desert, far away from the people, he's going to be rough. He's going to be coarse.

So that's how we understand, very briefly, those three pillars of the brotherhood of Islam: Tawbah, establishing the salah, in addition to that, giving the zakat.

The Three Levels of Brotherhood

After that, the brotherhood of Islam, it has levels. Three levels. We'll start off with the lowest level. The lowest level that everyone has to be upon. Everyone has to be upon, Ikhwan.

First Level: Not Making Adha (Harm)

From the harm that we suffer from, is this example, a real living example: we leave after everyone makes efforts. You brothers remained in the class, you prayed Maghrib, and then I gave a talk, you remain, and you stay, and you made Isha, and you left. That is tough. Everyone is making jihad, an effort.

I left the masjid yesterday, a brother who I never met before, my brother, may Allah protect him. He's older than me, younger than me. He came up to me, "As-salamu alaykum, akhi. What's going on?"

He said, "Look, I went over to that other place, and they said that, they are talking about you, that we shouldn't come here. They're talking about you."

"You know, they're talking about you. What are they saying?" "They told me to ask you, what are they saying about you?"

I said, "Akhi, I didn't want to alarm the brother. This is my brother, and he seemed sincere, and he seemed nice. But I couldn't help to sit there, and in my mind, voices were going off in my head. I had light bulbs here, light bulbs there."

I said, "Akhi, what sense does that make? Someone says that they're talking about you. Go ask them, what is being said. Let them tell you what's being said, and then come to me, and I'll tell you what I believe. And I'll tell you what my position is."

But this is the nonsense that we're dealing with right now. You ask one of them, "What's being said?" "Such and such is being said." "What's the evidence?" "I don't know."

And, akhi, busy yourself with learning about the pillars of the brotherhood of Islam, the Tajweed of the Quran, the Forty Hadith of Imam an-Nawawi, the Usul as-Sunnah of Imam Ahmad. That's going to be more beneficial to you.

So it is harm. As it relates to the lowest level of the brotherhood that everyone has to be upon. The highest level is up to you. But the lowest level, every single brother and sister, we have to be upon this level of brotherhood.

And that is, that we don't make harm. That we don't annoy each other. We don't annoy each other to the best of our ability.

Quran (Surah Al-Ahzab 33:58):

Allah says in the Quran, in Surah At-Tawbah, Surah Al-Ahzab:

Those people who make harm, and they annoy the believing men and the believing women, and they accuse them of what they didn't do, they have carried on themselves a lie, a sin that is tremendous, that is clear.

This ayah was revealed because of our mother, Umm Abdillah, Aisha bint as-Siddiq, may Allah be pleased with them both, when the people said that she committed zina, coming into Madinah late at night with Safwan ibn Mu'attal, may Allah be pleased with him.

Allah revealed that. You people are making harm to Rasulullah by saying that about his wife, to Aisha by saying that about her, to her father Abu Bakr, to the believers who love her and look at her as their mother.

Quran (Surah Al-Ahzab 33:6):

They are our mothers.

How would one of you feel if someone came and said, "Your mother is a fornicator," simply because your mother was the last one to leave the grocery store. "Your mother is a fornicator because I saw her leaving the grocery store and then the owner came out and closed the door." You're going to have a big problem with that.

So here, this ayah was revealed concerning the harm to the believers.

The believers have different levels. And harm to certain people is not like the harm to other people. Making harm to Rasulullah is not like making harm to me. Making harm to our elders is not like making harm to each other. Making harm to the orphan is not like making harm to the non-orphan.

When the people say this about Aisha, Wallahi, they're making harm to Rasulullah, peace be upon him. "That your wife, you didn't have enough wisdom, and enough insight, and enough foresight to know that this woman is not a woman who was righteous, and she falls into betrayal."

When those people say that the companions disbelieved after Rasulullah, except five or six, that's harm to Rasulullah. Because what you're saying is, he didn't know who was around him. Muawiyah, he chose to write down the revelation. Muawiyah is a non-Muslim, he became a kafir, an apostate.

Rasulullah allowed an apostate to write the revelation? You're making harm to Rasulullah before it even hits that individual.

Practical Examples of Adha

From the practical real-life examples of harm between us, is the husband who smokes cigarettes and then he wants to be affectionate to his wife or his children. That's harm. Your breath smells like cigarettes and that's

harmful. Who would want to live with an individual whose breath smells of cigarette smoke? Always he has bad breath, stinky breath. And the smoke from the cigarettes.

Those of us who used to live in Madinah or if you visited Madinah, if you want to travel from Madinah to Mecca, we can all go and get a GMC, a big GMC. What do you guys call it? You know, Broncos, big ones. A what? I don't know. The big one, the big one. You don't see them here. It probably costs a bundle to put the petrol in those here.

Anyway, it's ten of us. So we decide we'll pay fifty riyals so we can have our own. Because if you share with the Muslims who come to the place where you rent it randomly, if it's three of us and seven Muslims, we're in our ihram and we're going three and a half hours.

And then suddenly we're smelling the smoke. What are you doing? And then we start to fight each other because they're killing us with the smoke from the beginning of the trip to the end of the trip.

The Muslims are the biggest smokers. On our airplanes you can smoke. Jordanian Airlines, Egypt Air, on our planes you can smoke. But on the airplanes of the kuffar, the restaurants of the kuffar, you can't smoke. So that's harm.

Two people, they come from the Arab world, they come from a Muslim country, and they come to America and they want to study in the university. And the university where we are is very expensive, Bradley University. You want to be an engineer? You go to NJIT, you go to MIT, or you go to Bradley University.

Costs a lot of money. So we decide that we're going to put our monies together and we rent a two-bedroom apartment. When we become roommates, one of the brothers, he wants to bring a dog into the home.

So the dog is always jumping on the other brother. The dog is always in his clothes. The dog is urinating, may Allah honor you, on the rug, on the carpet where we pray.

"How can you - you have to get rid of the dog." "Don't you know the dog is man's best friend?" That's what the brother said to the Muslim brother. "Ya akhi, that's harm, harm."

The other brother, he brings his girlfriend. He has a girlfriend, and she comes to visit. So we don't know which dog is worse. All of that is harm, Ikhwan.

So the lowest level is not to make harm to each other. I don't want you worrying about my business, so I shouldn't worry about your business. Why are you sitting with the brother asking, "How can he afford more than one wife? What is he doing?"

Why is that your business? As I don't want you to worry about my business, I don't worry about your business. Don't make ghibah of me, I don't make ghibah of you, and on and on and on and on.

Hadith:

So this is wajib upon all of us. Rasulullah told the individual who has nothing to offer, he said, if you don't have anything to offer, then do the good by holding your ego from the people.

You always have those people on the fringes, Ikhwan. They're on the sidelines, and all they do is criticize.

"Well, they shouldn't put the door right there. The door should have been over there. And they shouldn't have spent that much money."

But what are you doing? He's not doing anything. "Well, the administration are there like this, and they shouldn't have done this."

Ya Azim, what are you doing other than making harm and criticizing? Do good by being quiet. If you believe in Allah and the Last Day, do good by being quiet. That's the least you can do.

So the lowest level is avoiding harm.

Harm During Salah

From the harm is during the salah. During the salah, not turning off the cell phone. Especially in light of the fact that you brothers have an imam.

By Allah, I was making wudu yesterday, and I heard that recitation, and I looked up and I said, "Subhanallah.

The brothers at this masjid have an imam like that? MashaAllah."

When I came out and he started to read:

Quran (Surah Az-Zalzalah 99:1):

I actually felt, why didn't he read from a longer surah?

Hadith (Sunan Abu Dawud Hadith 4985):

Rasulullah used to tell Bilal:

"Bilal, make the adhan, and make us comfortable, because we're about to pray."

He used to find comfort in the salah. He told the people:

Hadith (Sunan an-Nasa'i Hadith 3940):

"The prayer has been made the coolness of my eye."

If that brother reads the way he reads, MashaAllah, then how was the recitation of Rasulullah? Can you imagine praying behind Rasulullah?

I was a new student in Madinah, I didn't know the difference between Alif, Ba, Ta. If they would have fallen on my head out of the sky, I wouldn't have known that's an Alif or Ba, Ta.

I used to pray behind the Imams of the Haram, Ibrahim Al-Akhdar, and others. Wallahi, I didn't know what he was saying, but I used to cry because his voice was so nice, and I was unmarried, and I needed to get married, and only Allah was going to help me. So I used to feel sorry for myself.

And I used to listen to that recitation, and I said, "Wallahi, standing behind Rasulullah, how would it be?"

Hadith (Sahih al-Bukhari Hadith 3808):

And he told the Ummah: "Take the Quran from four people." The first one he mentioned, Abdullah ibn Mas'ud.

The fact that he mentioned him first, from the fiqh of the language, when something is mentioned first, in the Quran and the Sunnah, usually it's more important.

The first one he mentioned, Abdullah ibn Mas'ud. And take it from Muadh ibn Jabal, who will come on Yawm al-Qiyamah, and all of the Ulama of the world will be raised up, and they will have their banner. Muadh ibn Jabal will be in front of them with the flag, because he will be the Imam of the Ulama of the world.

And the fourth one, Salim, the freed slave of Abu Hudhaifah. They described their recitation as being the recitation that will cause the heart to become soft.

So what harm is, being in a masjid where you have an Imam like that, and then the telephone goes off. The person is in his salah, and he's thinking and contemplating, and he's considering, and he says, "Okay, Rasulullah told us, when you're going to pray, stand up and extinguish the fire that you created for yourself."

From our actions and deeds, we created a fire. We're going to go to the Hellfire if we don't get it together. The salah that you pray is one of the ways that you can extinguish that fire. So when a person stands up to pray, that gives them incentive to be really in this prayer.

But he hears the telephone, and then the Shaytan, his name is Khanzab, his job is just to make confusion on the one who is praying. He comes, and now he starts to say, after the telephone, "You left your lights on in the car. We have to get back, because the dinner is getting ready."

And it's a trial. So we have to all be on this level of our brotherhood.

Second Level: Loving for Your Brother What You Love for Yourself

The second level is a bit higher, and a bit more difficult to practice.

Hadith (Sahih al-Bukhari Hadith 13 and Sahih Muslim Hadith 45):

And that is, the Prophet, peace be upon him, says:

(Sahih al-Bukhari)

"None of you believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself from good."

I don't want you to make ghibah of me, so I shouldn't make ghibah of you. I don't want you - you don't know me - I don't want you, before meeting me and getting to know me, I don't want you to have bad suspicion, "I'm after your money." I don't want you to think like that, so I shouldn't think like that about you.

If we don't have this, we don't have complete iman.

None of you believes:

So if you want the complete iman, part of being a believer is to love for your brother what you love for yourself.

A Muslim, he may not love for his brother what he loves for himself. This is the Iman in Islam.

Hadith (Sunan Ibn Majah Hadith 4217):

The Prophet, peace be upon him, says:

(Sunan Ibn Majah)

"Have wara, have awareness, you will be the one who is the most devout, the most worshipper, you're the real worshipper. Have some wara. Oh, I doubt that. So I'm going to leave it alone. I don't think that's a good thing, so I'm going to leave it alone. This is wara."

"What do you think about what Shaykh so-and-so said about Shaykh so-and-so?" "Wallahi, that's not going to benefit me, so I don't think anything, I don't have anything to say."

That's wara. Even if I have an opinion, I'm not going to say it, because I don't want my word to go here and there, and I don't want to be a trial for you, and I don't want to become a part of a situation. That's wara.

If you have wara:

You'll be the one who's the most worshipper.

And have contentment, you will be the most thankful. Contentment is when you're satisfied with what you have. You're satisfied. You want to be covered. All I want is my nakedness to be covered. My thawb, it can come to the half of my leg, or it can go a little below that. But I don't need a thawb that drives all the way twenty feet behind me.

I want more, more, more. Whatever you have, if you are content, then you are really okay.

Hadith (Sahih al-Bukhari Hadith 6446 and Sahih Muslim Hadith 1051):

(Sahih al-Bukhari)

It is not being rich having a lot of money, nice car, big house. But being rich is being content with what you have.

Because the nature of Ibn Adam, as the Prophet says, peace be upon him, in this hadith al-qudsi, that Allah says:

Hadith (Sahih al-Bukhari Hadith 6439 and Sahih Muslim Hadith 1048):

(Sahih al-Bukhari)

"If Ibn Adam was given a valley of gold, he would want a second valley. And if he was given a second valley, he wants a third valley. And nothing is going to fill up the body of Ibn Adam except dirt. And Allah will forgive whoever makes tawbah."

Quran (Surah Al-Baqarah 2:43):

Allah said, "We sent the money down."

You all have some pounds in your pocket. If we put it all together, we have two thousand pounds or more.

Everyone who's sitting here, you have money in your pocket.

Allah said, "We gave you this money that you have so that you can establish the salah and so that you can give the zakat." That's what the money is for. To build the masjid, to eat, to come, to be able to pray, to get a car, so that you can establish the salah, establish your deen.

You use that money so that you can get married.

Hadith (Sahih al-Bukhari Hadith 5066):

(Sahih al-Bukhari)

"Whoever gets married, he completed half of his religion, his iman. So let him fear Allah in the remaining half."

He needs money to get married. We revealed and we gave you this money for the establishment of the salah and to give the zakat. We didn't give you the money to worship the money.

Hadith (Sahih al-Bukhari Hadith 6435):

(Sahih al-Bukhari)

"They are destroyed. The one who worships the dinar and the dirham and his clothes."

And he said in that hadith, "And if Ibn Adam was given a valley, he would want a second valley. And if he was given a second valley, he wants a third valley. And nothing is going to fill up the body of Ibn Adam except dirt. And Allah will forgive whoever makes tawbah."

Third Level: Al-Ithar (Giving Preference to Others)

So as it relates to the issue, Ikhwan, of loving for your brother what you love for yourself. This is the second level. The third level and the highest level is a concept that we want to share with you, a new word.

And it is called:

الْإِيثَارُ

Al-Ithar. The alif and then the yaa and then the tha and then the alif and then the ra. Learn this word. You know taqwa, masjid, hijab, jilbab, lihya, kitab, qalam, shams, nur, hidayah, rasul, sahabi. You know all of those words.

Add this to your Arabic vocabulary.

الْإِيثَارُ

Al-Ithar means to give precedence or preference to your brother over yourself. You have a right. You have the right to this thing. You have the right to drink it. You pour it for yourself and you have the right to drink it.

But you make ithar and you say, "Tafadhal" (here, you take it).

Quran (Surah Al-Hashr 59:9):

When Allah mentioned about the Muhajireen and the Ansar, He said in the Quran about them:

Allah praised the Ansar, the Muhajireen. And then he mentioned these people from the Ansar. He said about the Ansar: And those people who lived in Madinah, and they believed before many of them in Mecca, and they believed. They love those people who make hijrah to them. And they do not put anything in their chest against them from what they have been given.

They are from Quraysh.

Hadith (Sahih al-Bukhari Hadith 3495):

Rasulullah said about Quraysh:

"They have to be the leaders."

When Rasulullah died, the Ansar came together, and they were going to choose Sa'd ibn Ubadah or Sa'd ibn Muadh as their leader. Abu Bakr, the most knowledgeable one, with Umar and the rest of them they went. Abu Bakr said, "You can't do that."

Rasulullah said:

That's what Allah gave them when they used to make jihad. Rasulullah would give a lot to the Muhajireen, and wouldn't give a lot to them.

So Allah said in the Quran: And those people who lived in Madinah, they love the people who make hijrah to them. And they do not have anything in their hearts for what they were given.

And they give them preference. "You have two wives. You choose whichever one you want."

What we'll do is, "I have two wives. The one who can't cook. The one who has a long tongue. The one whose family gives me all the trouble. I'll say, you get her. She's a good sister."

That's the ithar of our companions, ya Ikhwan. The companions of Rasulullah, peace be upon him.

The Six Rights of Brotherhood

The last thing, ya Ikhwan, in the last two minutes concerning the brotherhood of Islam.

The brotherhood of Islam, it has rights. Rights. We have rights over each other. Pillars, three. The levels, three. The rights of the brotherhood, six.

Hadith (Sahih Muslim Hadith 2162):

And they come to us from the hadith:

حَقُّ الْمُسْلِمِ عَلَى الْمُسْلِمِ سِتُّ إِذَا لَقِيتَهُ فَسَلِّمْ عَلَيْهِ وَإِذَا دَعَاكَ فَأَجِبْهُ وَإِذَا اسْتَنْصَحَكَ فَانْصَحْ لَهُ وَإِذَا عَطَسَ فَحَمِدَ اللَّهَ فَشَمِتْهُ وَإِذَا مَرِضَ فَعُدْهُ وَإِذَا

The rights of the Muslim upon the Muslim are six:

First Right: Give Him Salams

When you meet him, give him salams.

Abu Huraira used to go to the marketplace, just to practice this hadith.

Hadith (Sahih Muslim Hadith 54):

When Rasulullah told his companions:

He said, "You will not enter Jannah until you have Iman. And you will not have Iman until you love each other. Shall I not teach you something? If you did it, it would force the love between you?" They said, "What is it, Ya Rasulullah?" He said, "Spread the salams between yourselves."

Abu Huraira would go to the marketplace and he would say to everyone he met on the way:

Today, if we had a person who did that, people would make fun of him. They'll make mockery. They'll make fun and ridicule him. "Oh, here he comes, here he comes. Abu... here he is." And all the man is trying to do is force the love between us.

And, Ikhwan, I see some of you in the audience looking stern and serious here, like this. We don't want to offend anybody. You could come afterwards and I'll apologize. Lighten up.

We're all brothers in here, Inshallah. That's how some brothers are. He used to come to the people like that.

"Give some sadaqa, Inshallah."

So the salams, Ikhwan, has some fiqh connected to it. From the signs of the Hour is the salam will only be with those we know. We'll only give salams to the people we know. That's all. I give salams if I know you.

If I don't know you, I don't give salams. If the sheikh comes, we'll give him salams. We don't give the other people salams.

So it has a lot of fiqh. Who starts the salams? The young and the old, the standing and the sitting, and so forth and so on. Many kinds of people are not giving salams.

Giving kuffar salams, giving the woman in the street salams. It has a fiqh, deserves a khutbah, deserves a lesson.

Second Right: Answer His Invitation

Second thing from the rights of the Muslims is, if he invites you, answer the invitation.

Even if you're fasting, one of the leaders of the responsible people here, he invited us to his home. One of the brothers went, and they put the spread out. The brother invited him to eat, he said, "Ana sa'im" (I'm fasting).

One of the brothers told him, then pray. He thought he meant to pray salah. Rasulullah said, if you're invited and you're fasting, then you should pray. You should answer the invitation, and you should pray. But the prayer here is to make dua for the people.

So even if you're fasting, you should answer the invitation. That's from his rights. He cooks all of that food for you, and you don't come.

Third Right: Give Him Advice

From the rights, if he seeks your advice, give him advice. If he wants your advice, give him the advice. But it's like being a judge. If it's not obligatory upon everyone, be careful.

"Ya akhi, I need your advice. I have a wife, I've been married for thirteen years. She's a good woman, but she burns the rice constantly. I have six children by her. I can't take it anymore."

"Ya akhi, divorce her. Find a woman who can cook very good."

You don't want to give that kind of advice, and you don't want to ask someone who gives that kind of advice.

Destroy your family over a pot of rice.

Fourth Right: Say Yarhamak Allah When He Sneezes

Number four, if he sneezes and says, "Alhamdulillah," we say, "Yarhamak Allah." If he sneezes, and he doesn't say "Alhamdulillah," we teach him, we let him know. If he doesn't say it, then we don't say, "Yarhamak Allah."

Even the Jews used to do this with Rasulullah. They used to sneeze, so that he can say, "Yarhamak Allah." But he used to say, "Yuslihullah banakum" - "May Allah rectify your affairs." But he didn't say, "Yarhamak Allah."

Fifth Right: Visit Him When He Is Sick

Number five, if he becomes sick, then go and visit him.

This is something that, Wallahi, an act of worship from Islam that we are negligent in is visiting the sick, and the rewards that come along with it for you, and as well in the recovery, Inshallah, for the sick person. When he has people coming to visit him, that puts him in the state of mind to get well.

We can nurse our brother back to health with the dua:

As'al Allah Al-Azeem, Rabbul Arsh Al-Azeem, yashfiyak

"I ask Allah, the Most Great, Lord of the Mighty Throne, to heal you."

You say it seven times, brother is going to get well, Inshallah. He can't get that without you coming, giving him ruqya with the Quran. Just your mere presence.

In America, Ikhwan, I don't know how it is here, I went to one hospital here when our brother Sirat Abdul Malik was sick. May Allah have mercy upon Sirat, and put him in Jannah.

I went to the hospital, your hospital is not like our hospital. In our hospital, you have a room, and there are two people, and there's a curtain. Usually when no one's there, the curtain is open.

You may talk to him, you may not talk to him. We find that the Muslim is in the room with his kafir partner, the kuffar come to visit their relative. They come in with balloons, they come in with fruit, they come in with candy, they come in with dolls, cars.

They close the curtain for privacy, and the Muslim is over there by himself, wondering:

"Where are those brothers at in the masjid? Where are they at?"

And it's so bad, that the kafir, one of them opens the curtain, and he says, "Can we borrow that extra chair you have over there?"

And the Muslim is upset. "Where are my brothers at?"

When the sister has a baby, where are the sisters at in helping her, cooking for her? In her country, she comes from Eritrea, Somalia. She comes from a Muslim country, where when the woman has a baby, she becomes a princess, because she gave us a new individual in our community.

In the Muslim country, the woman, the Muslim woman, the Arab woman, she sits on the bed for forty days with her legs up, eating mulukhiya. For forty days, she's just the princess, taking it easy. Her sisters, the neighborhood are taking care of her.

Her husband brings her here. She gets married here. After having the baby, after the next day, the second day, when she comes out of the hospital, she's in the kitchen cooking.

Forty days in her country, after two days here, she has to start taking care of the newborn child and the other children. Where is visiting the sick?

Sixth Right: Follow His Janazah When He Dies

Finally, Ikhwan, if he dies, we follow him. Which goes to show, even after death, the believer has rights. Even

when he's in the ground.

Hadith (Sunan Abu Dawud Hadith 3207):

When he's in the ground, Rasulullah said:

"Breaking the bones of the dead person is like breaking his bones when he's alive."

We can't make autopsies on the Muslims if there's no justified reason or cause. His body is an amanah and it is haram. It has sanctity.

Breaking his bone while he is dead is like breaking his bones while he is living. We go to the graveyards, we don't walk over the graves, on top of the graves.

Hadith (Sahih Muslim Hadith 972):

He said:

"Don't sit on top of people's graves and don't pray towards the graves."

Don't use a grave as a sutrah. They have rights, and they are in the graveyard.

When we go to the graveyard:

It's the dua again.

Conclusion

There are a lot of rights, but these six come in this hadith from the rights of the Muslim upon the Muslim, and that is that we help each other, whether oppressor or oppressed.

So we're gonna stop here, Insha'Allah. And I don't know, we went over the time, but I think that was the question and answer time, I believe.

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