How to Be A Productive Neighbour

Aisha (may Allāh be pleased
with her)
reported: “I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace be
upon him, say, ‘Jibreel, may Allah bless him
and grant him peace, kept on
recommending that I treat neighbors well
until I thought that he would order me to
treat them as my heirs’ “[Bukhari].

“And worship Allah and do not ascribe any
partner to Him … the neighbor who is near
of kin, the neighbor who is a stranger …
Indeed Allah does not like anyone who is a
swaggering braggart” (Quran chapter 4,
verse 36). A neighbor is one who lives near or next to another. Al-
Hasan was asked about the neighbor and said, ”The term ’neighbor’ includes the forty houses in front a person, the forty houses behind him, the forty houses on his right and the forty houses on his left.” Neighbors are the first people whom
we can run to in case of an emergency, be
it a desperate need of
salt or a fire in the night – Subhanallah!
How beautiful is our religion that it coaches us to be our best with our neighbors.