Wish for others what we wish for ourselves

Memorise and practice a new hadeeth every week!

By Mawlana Junayd Makda Sahib

Love for Others What You Love for Yourself

لَا يُؤْمِنُ أَحَدُكُمْ حَتّٰى يُحِبَّ لأَخِيهِ مَا يُحبُّ لِنَفْسِهِ

Our Beloved Nabi ﷺ said, “None of you can be a true believer until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself”
Sahih al-Bukhari

Explanation

We all love good things. We like to be treated kindly, respected, forgiven when we make mistakes, and helped when we are struggling.

In this hadeeth, our beloved Nabi ﷺ is teaching us to think about others the same way we think about ourselves and and reminds us that doing so is part of having complete Iman.

So for example:

• If we like people to speak nicely to us, we should speak nicely to others too.

• If we want others to make du’a for us, we should make du’a for them too.

• If we want people to overlook our mistakes, we should overlook the mistakes of others too.

Imagine if we all practised this hadeeth, how beautiful the world around us would become, and how much blessing and happiness we would see everywhere!

How to Practise This Hadeeth and Become a Complete Believer

Shaykhul Hadeeth Mawlana Muhammad Saleem Dhorat حفظه الله explains that there are four areas included within this hadeeth:

1.) Wishing good for others:
Whatever blessings we enjoy, be it wealth, health, respect, or happiness, we should wish the same for others too.

2.) Treating others well:
The way we want to be treated, kindly, truthfully, and respectfully, is the way we should treat others.

3.) Giving sincere advice:
When someone asks for our advice, we should advise them just as we would want to be advised ourselves.

4.) Avoiding jealousy:
If others have a blessing we don’t have, we shouldn’t be jealous. Instead, we should treat them the way we would want them to treat us if we had that blessing.