Reconciling the Hearts
Allaah - the One free from all imperfections - said: *"So have taqwaa (fear and obedience) of Allaah and reconcile the differences between yourselves."* [Soorah al-Anfaal 8:1]. *"Indeed the Believers are but brothers. Therefore reconcile the differences between your brothers, and fear Allaah so that you may receive mercy."* [Soorah al-Hujuraat 49:10]. "So this is a knot which Allaah has bound the Believers together with, such that whenever a person is found possessing *eemaan* (faith) in Allaah, His Angels, His Books, His Messengers and the Last Bay - whether in the eastern or western part of the world - then such a person becomes the brother of the Believers. This brotherhood obligates that the Believers should love for that person that which they love for themselves, and hate for that person that which they hate for themselves. Therefore, the Prophet *sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam* said - whilst ordering the brotherhood of *eemaan* (faith): *"Do not envy one another. Do not inflate prices upon one another. Do not hate one another. Do not forsake one another. Do not under-cut one another. But be worshippers of Allaah and brothers. The Muslim is the brother of another Muslim; he neither oppresses him, nor humiliates him, nor lies to him, nor holds him in contempt. And piety is right here - and he pointed to his chest three times. It is enough evil for a person to hold his brother Muslim in contempt. The whole of a Muslim for another Muslim is sacred; his blood, his property and his honour."*1 And he *sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam* said: *"The Believer to the Believer is like a solid structure, one part supporting the other." And he interlaced his fingers to demonstrate this.*2 Thus Allaah and His Messenger *sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam* ordered that the rights of the Believers be fulfilled by each other, and that those matters which will bring about harmony, love and togetherness be carried out. All of this is to be done in order to further the rights that they have over one another. So from such tights is that when fighting occurs between them - thereby causing their hearts to separate and to have hatred and to cut-off from each other - then the Believers should bring about reconciliation between their brothers and do that which will remove the enmity. Then Allaah ordered *taqwaa* in general and made the bestowal of His Mercy the consequence of their having *taqwaa* and their fulfilling the rights of the Believers. So He said: *"And have taqwaa of Allaah in order that you may receive mercy."* Thus, if Allaah's Mercy is attained, then the good of this world and the Hereafter will also be attained."3 'Aaishah *radiallaahu 'anhaa* used to say, that when people abandoned acting upon this Aayah (verse): *"When two parties of the Believers fight each other, then make reconciliation between them."* [Soorah al-Hujuraat 49:9]. So when the Muslims began fighting each other, it was obligatory to reconcile them, as Allaah - the Most High - ordered. However, when they did not do this, then fitnah (trials and tribulations) spread, as did ignorance, and this is what caused the differences to continue.4 Allaah's Messenger *sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam* said: *"Shall I not inform you of something that is greeter in degree than (optional) fasting, charity and Prayer?"* They said: Indeed inform us. So he said: *"It is reconciling the people. For indeed causing corruption between them is the shaver!"*5 And he *sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam* explained this shaving in another saying: *"The disease of the people before you has overcome you, namely envy and hatred and it is the shaver. I do not say that it shaves-off the heir. Rather, it shaves-off the religion!"*6 ------------------------------ 1. Related by Muslim (no.2564), from Abu Hurayrah *radiallaahu 'anhu*. 2. Related by al-Bukhaaree (no.481) and Muslim (no.2585), from Abu Hurayrah *radiallaahu 'anhu*. 3. *Tayseerul-Kareemur-Rahmaan* (7/133-134) of Shaykh as-Sa'dee. 4. Related by Ibn Abil-'lzz in *Sharhul-'Aqeedatit-Tahaawiyyah* (2/777). Al-Bayhaqee related something similar to this in his *Sunanul-Kubraa* (8/172). 5. *Saheeh*: Related by at-Tirmidhee (no.2640) and Abu Daawood (no.4919), from Abud-Dardaa *radiallaahu 'anhu*. It was authentitated by al-Albaanee in *Ghaayatul-Maraam* (no.414). 6. *Hasan*: Related by at-Tirmidhee (no.2641), from az-Zubayr ibn al-'Awwaam *radiallaahu 'anhu*. It was authenticated by al-Albaanee in *Saheeh Sunan at-Tirmidhee* (no.2038). -- Dr Benil Hafeeq K.P Consultant Nephrologist MIMS and IQRAA Hospital Calicut --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Nor can Goodness and Evil be equal. Repel (evil) with what is better; then the enmity between him and you will become as if it were your friend and intimate! Visit: sultan.org Subscribe: [email protected] Post to group: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
