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tattle, causing inconvenience and perhaps annoyance to your host; (6) understand what is proper behaviour for you:
he may be too polite to ask to depart. All this has a social bearng: respect and delicate consideration for others are
among the highest virtues. (33.53)
3756 The actual manner of showing respect to ladies may be different in different circumstances. But it is an essential
principle of good society to show the greatest deference to them. To the "Mothersof the Believers" this respect was
due in an exceptional degree. (33.53)
3757 Considering his position, the holy Prophet deserved to be respected before all other men and nothing should be done
to cause him the least harm and annoyance. This applied not only during his life-time, but it applies now, because his
teaching and personality are alive to us. It was not fitting that his widows, both for their own position and for the
position of the Prophet, should be married by other men after him. And this mark of respect was duly observed in
history. (33.53)
3758 "Annoy": Aza (IV) may equally mean: to vex, to cause hurt or injury, to insult, to ill-treat by slander or unseemly
conduct, or hurt the feelings of (some one). The Prophet came with a divine mission to teach and reclaim the world,
and he is entitied to the respect of all, even of those who do not consciously acknowledge his mission, for his mission
works constantly like the forces of nature. In a minor degree the "Mothers of the Believers" are also entitied to respect.
(33.53)
18:77 - Then they proceeded: until when they came to the inhabitants of a town they asked them
for food but they refused them hospitality. They found there a wall on the point of falling down
but he set it up straight. (Moses) said: "If thou hadst wished surely thou couldst have exacted
some recompense for it!" 24192420
2419 The inhabitants were churlish. They broke the universal Eastern rule of hospitality to strangers, and thus showed
themselves beyond the pale of ordinary human courtesies. Note that they would have been expected to offer
hospitality of themselves, unasked. Here Moses and his companion actually had to ask for hospitality and were
refused point-blank. (18.77)
2420 As they were refused hospitality, they should, as self-respecting men, have shaken the dust of the town off their feet,
or shown their indignation in some way. Instead of that, Khidhr actually goes and does a benevolent act. He rebuilds
for them a falling wall, and never asks for any compensation for it. Perhaps he employed local workmen for it and paid
them wages, thus actually benefiting a town which had treated him and his companion so shabbily! Moses is naturally
surprised and asks, "Could you not at least have asked for the cost?" (18.77)
12:59 - And when he had furnished them forth with provisions (suitable) for them he said: "Bring
unto me a brother ye have of the same father as yourselves (but a different mother): see ye
not that I pay out full measure and that I do provide the best hospitality? 1720
1720 Joseph treated his brothers liberally. Perhaps he condescended to enter into conversation with these strangers, and
enquired about their family. The ten brothers had come. Had they left a father behind them? What sort of a person
was he? Very aged? Well, of course he could not come. Had they any other brothers? Doubtless the ten brothers said
nothing about their lost Joseph, or told some lie about him. But perhaps their host's kindly insistence brought
Benjamin into the conversation. How old was he? Why had they not brought him? Would they bring him next time?
Indeed they must, or they would get no more corn, and he-the great Egyptian Wazir-would not even see them. (12.59)
Al-Muwatta Hadith
Hadith 49.4
Sunna of the Fitra
Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that Said ibn al-Musayyub said, "Ibrahim, may Allah bless him and grant
him peace, was the first to give hospitality to the guest and the first person to be circumcised and the first person to trim the
moustache and the first person to see grey hair. He said, 'O Lord! What is this?' Allah the Blessed, the Exalted, said, 'It is
dignity, Ibrahim.' He said, 'Lord, increase me in dignity!' "
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith
Hadith 1.631
Abu Huraira
Narrated by
The Prophet said, "Allah will prepare for him who goes to the mosque (every) morning and in the afternoon (for the
congregational prayer) an honorable place in Paradise with good hospitality for (what he has done) every morning and
afternoon going.
Fiqh-us-Sunnah
Fiqh 3.75b
The Distribution of Zakah in Order to Grow Nearer to Allah
It is not permissible to distribute zakah so as to grow nearer to Allah other than what Allah, the Exalted One, mentions in the
'ayah: "The alms are only for the poor and the needy" (at-Taubah 60). Thus, zakah cannot be paid for establishing mosques,
bridges, road repair, hospitality, shrouding the dead, and so on.
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