Allah has made the rights of the Muslim brothers obligatory to all the Muslims. The Muslims are brothers to one another. The Muslims partake of one another's delight and grief. It is not fair for the Muslim to torture any other Muslim. The famous Exegete Hazrat Mujahid says:

An itching on the people of the hell will be imposed. They will itch and solace so much that the flesh will be cut and the bones will show out. Then they will be called, "O such and such persons, is your itching troubling you?" They will say, "O yes." They will be told that it is in lieu of the trouble that he would give the Muslims. A tradition says so far that it is not fair for the Muslim to torture a Muslim by making any indication of his eye.

If the Muslims live in love, peace and congeniality, this activity of theirs will be better than supererogatory fasting, prayer and alms giving. If a Muslim conceals another Muslim's defects in this world, Allah will conceal his defects in both the worlds. It is not fair for a Muslim to backbite another Muslim and search out his weak points. The Holy Prophet  says, "If a person searches out a Muslim's weaknesses to disgrace him before the people, Allah will disgrace him when he will be sitting at home." The Muslims are ordered to greet the Muslim who meets him i.e. he should be prayed for safety. The first demand of prayer for safety is that that Muslim may not hurt that Muslim with his tongue and hand.

Hazrat Anas says that he served the Holy Prophet for eight years. The Holy Prophet said, "O Anas, make ablution properly. It will increase in your age. (i.e. there will be multiplicity in your age). Greet everyone of my Ummah whom you meet. It will increase in your virtues. Salute the inmates of your house when you enter your house. It will bring blessings to your house". (Musnad Abu Ya'li)

It is narrated that when a Muslim meets a Muslim but does not greet him, the angels wonder at it. When a Muslim greets another Muslim and he answers back, the angels pray for him for seventy times. The Muslims should shake hands with one another when they meet. They will gain numerous kinds of virtues and blessings at it. It is narrated that their sins are written off. The Muslim who extends hand for hand shake is given ninety blessings and the receiver gains ten blessings. If a Muslim falls ill, the others should ask after him. It is narrated that the asker after is like sitting in the gardens of Paradise. Seventy thousand angels keep praying for him till night. If a Muslim makes it his routine to pray for all the Muslims in the morning and the evening, he is blessed with the status of "Abdall." Looking after and rearing the children of a deceased Muslim is the responsibility of the Muslims. It is reported in Musnad Ahmad "If a Muslim takes over the responsibility of tending an orphan and does not let him feel any deficiency, paradise will be made obligatory to him." The Holy Prophet  says, "The best house of the Muslims is where an orphan dwells and he is treated well. The worst house of the Muslims is where an orphan dwells but he is maltreated."

A Muslim likes for other Muslims the thing that he likes for himself. The Muslim who causes happiness for another Muslim will be blessed by Allah with happiness on the Day of Judgement. The Muslim who works for a night or a day to fulfil the needs of Muslims; whether that need is fulfilled or not; this deed is better for him than Itikaaf for two months. It is said that pleasing a Muslim's heart is one of the dearest deeds to Allah. This providing delight should be in a way that he may remove his worry, pay his debt or feed him in hunger. This chain of rights continues even after death. It is the right of the Muslim that his funeral prayer should be offered. He should be washed and shrouded and be accompanied in his funeral. The Muslims should participate in the work of burying him. Imaam Amash states the condition of his time, "When we participated in the funeral ceremony, none knew who was condoling with whom because all used to be grieved." O yes, the same is the case in Islamic love. It is also the right that other Muslim should visit the graves of the Muslims, pray for them and remember their own death. Hazrat Haatim Asam says, "If a man passes by the graveyard of the Muslims without thinking of his own death and without praying for the dead, he misappropriates with himself as well as the people in the graves."

It was routine of Hazrat Abu Darda to sit by the graves. When people asked the reason, he said, "I sit by the people who make me recall the Hereafter. When I desert them, they do not backbite me."

Hazrat Sufyan says, "The man who remembers his grave the maximum, will find his grave a garden in Paradise. The man who is negligent of his grave, will find it a pit of fire."

Passing by the graves in Madina, the Holy Prophet attended to them and said,

السلام علیکم یا اہل القبور، یغفراللہ لنا ولکم، انتم سلفنا و نحن بالاثر

"Greetings to you, O the people in the graves. May Allah forgive us all! You have proceeded us and we are following you." (Tirmizi)

O yes, a Muslim has numerous rights against other Muslims from birth to death. Has he ever thought what is the purpose of those rights?

The one who deceives a Muslim, will not be one among us. The person whose neighbours are not safe from his wickedness has no Belief. A Muslim is the one from whose tongue and hands, the other Muslims are safe. Receiving a Muslim with smiling face is also a virtue etc. etc. Have you ever thought what is lying hidden behind these rights? Today, I have written a few rights desultorily. The Holy Quran has described the mutual rights of the Muslims in detail. Hundreds of traditions of the Holy Prophet  exist in this regard. The scholars of the Ummah have written bulky books about it. The actual point is that Kalima exists in the heart of every Muslim. This Kalima makes him a very high and elevated person.

Now, the demand of that Kalima is that none should tease a Muslim nor trouble him nor hurt him nor kill him nor backbite him. He should respect and honour him the maximum. So , you will find that such Muslim has firm faith and takes care of the rights of others. The Muslim with weak faith injures the rights of others. A buyer comes to a Muslim shopkeeper. It is the duty of the shopkeeper neither to cheat him nor to rob him keeping the greatness of Kalima in the heart of that Muslim in view.

If the faith of the shopkeeper is weak, he will cheat by charging ten rupees extra, will tell lies and will sell adulterated things without caring the measure of a fibre that he is disgracing the Kalima Tayyiba through that nefarious deed. That's why; Allah says ویل للمطففینRuination is to those who do not pay full right of the Muslims.

Some scholars translate it thus, "He is the man who causes his bigger loss for a small gain." For example, a trader wrangles a Muslim ten rupees. After death, he will be punished so severely for ten rupees that if he is given the wealth of the whole world and he expends it in the way of Allah, it will not expiate the punishment for those ten rupees. How great loss for a trifle. When the Muslims regard for one anothers rights, might, collectivity and strength is created in them and at last, they are blessed with caliphate in which there is all good for the Muslims. These days, seeing the mutual killing of the Muslims, we develop the thinking that grandeur of the Kalima is emitting from their hearts.

The Muslims are killing selling, eating one anther and auctioning them to the Infidels. How shocking that the Polytheists have strengthened. Now, India calls herself mini Super-Power. A few Jews have grown powerful and are attacking the Muslims everywhere. The Christians call themselves Super-Power. The Muslims have no such country where the grandeur of Kalima Tayyiba and Islam is regarded. Lust for wealth and regionalism have made the Muslims enemies to one another. The Muslims lack neither in might nor resources. Allah be thanked, a few Mujaahid of the nation kill millions of Infidels. But who can stop ruination when the Muslims become enemies to one another. The Holy Quran is calling us, "The Believers are brothers." The Holy Prophet  is calling, "O slaves of Allah, become brothers to one another."

The Muslim who answers to this call according to his capacity will be the true well-wisher of the Ummah.
 

اللھم صلی علی سید نا محمد والہ و صحبہ وسلم تسلیماً کثیراً کثیرا