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Neighbors' Rights in Islam
Introduction
Islam is a religion of justice to all mankind. Muslims are fortunate enough to have a great teacher called Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him. Actually humanity is blessed with the birth of such an exceptional man. Whether you are a Muslim or a non-Muslim, he is a teacher to you...
Whether you are a Muslim or a non-Muslim you can't help that feeling of closeness, respect and love to such a character.
This article, as one of many others, speaks of the rights of people in a society and the clear borders that Islam drew to mankind. This article speaks of neighbors rights in particular.
Read this article and enjoy the beauty of the clear, smoothly curved borders that Islam drew among people…read with your heart before your eyes...Be freed of all prejudices you have against Islam and our Noble Prophet, Mohammad, peace and blessings be upon him. Just read and enjoy and know that there once lived people on this same earth who had lived by those principles…There had been a society that enjoyed the most luxurious necessity on earth namely RESPECT OTHERS RIGHTS.
Before you start I'll just present to you the opinions of some people, who we all know and respect, on Mohammed…The last messenger of God to all mankind...whether you believe in him or not you have the right to know that he was sent for YOU and he was God's gift to us all.
N.B.: In the following opinions some used the word (Muhammadanism) instead of (Islam)
Annie Besant in "The Life and Teachings of Mohammad", Madras, 1932.
It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knew how he taught and how he lived, to feel anything but reverence for that mighty Prophet, one of the great messengers of the Supreme. And although in what I put to you I shall say many things which may be familiar to many, yet I myself feel, whenever I reread them, a new way of admiration, a new sense of reverence for that mighty Arabian teacher.
Reverend Bosworth Smith in "Muhammad and Muhammadanism", London, 1874.
"Head of the State as well as the Church, he was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without the Pope's pretensions, and Caesar without the legions of Caesar, without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a police force, without a fixed revenue. If ever a man ruled by a right divine, it was Muhammad, for he had all the powers without their supports. He cared not for the dressings of power. The simplicity of his private life was in keeping with his public life."
"In Mohammadanism (Islam) every thing is different here. Instead of the shadowy and the mysterious, we have history....We know of the external history of Muhammad....while for his internal history after his mission had been proclaimed, we have a book absolutely unique in its origin, in its preservation....on the Substantial authority of which no one has ever been able to cast a serious doubt."
W.C. Taylor in "The History of Muhammadanism and its Sects"
So great was his liberality to the poor that he often left his household unprovided, nor did he content himself with relieving their wants, he entered into conversation with them, and expressed a warm sympathy for their sufferings. He was a firm friend and a faithful ally.
Encyclopedia Britannica
"Muhammad is the most successful of all Prophets and religious personalities."
Encyclopedia Britannica further confirms:
"....a mass of detail in the early sources show that he was an honest and upright man who had gained the respect and loyalty of others who were like-wise honest and upright men." (Vol. 12)
Mahatma Gandhi, statement published in "Young India"
I wanted to know the best of the life of one who holds today an undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind.... I became more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle. When I closed the second volume (of the Prophet's biography), I was sorry there was not more for me to read of that great life.
Sir George Bernard Shaw in "The Genuine Islam", Vol. 1, No. 8, 1936.
"If any religion had the chance of ruling over England , nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam."
“I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capacity to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age. I have studied him - the wonderful man and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ, he must be called the Savior of Humanity."
"I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness: I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today."
K. S. Ramakrishna Rao in "Mohammed: The Prophet of Islam", 1989
My problem to write this monograph is easier, because we are not generally fed now on that (distorted) kind of history and much time need not be spent on pointing out our misrepresentations of Islam. The theory of Islam and sword, for instance, is not heard now in any quarter worth the name. The principle of Islam that “there is no compulsion in religion" is well known.
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