Chapter VI: Seclusion
(26) Visit the graves of the dead. The object is to pray, to take lessons and to make the mind soft. The Prophet said : I have not seen a more horrible secenery than grave. The Prophet once went to the grave of his mother Amina. He said : I sought permission of God to visit her grave and He gave me permission. I sought His permission for her forgiveness but he refused it. He began to weep. He said: grave is the first station out of the stations of the next world. If its inmate gets relief from it, what will occurs after it will be easy. If he does not get relief from it, what occurs after it will be severe . Hazrat Abu Darda'a used to sit by graves., Being asked the reason, he said 1 sit with such people who remind me of the next world. If I go away from them they do not back-bite me.
The Prophet said : There is no night in which a proclaimer does not proclaim : O inmates of the graves, whom doyou envy ? They say : We envy the inmates of mosques, as they fast and we do not fast, as they pray and we do not pray, as they remember God and we do not remember Him. Sufiyan Saori said: He who remember grave much, will get a garden in Paradise out of His gardens. He who does not remember grave gets a hole in Hell out of its>*holes.
RIGHTS OF NEIGHBOURS
As a Muslim has got rights over you, so a neighbour also has got rights over you. The Prophet said : There are three classes of neighbours. The first class neighbour has got one right, the second class two, and the third class three. He who is a neighbour, a Muslim and a relative has got three rights, one right of being a neighbour, one right of being a relative, and one night of being a Muslim. The second class neighbour has got two rights, one right of being a Muslim and one right of being a neighbour . The third class neighbour has got only one right. The right of being an infidel neighbour. The Prophet said : Treat well with your neighbour, you will be a Muslim. The Prophet said :
Gebriel was insisting always to pay the tight of the neighbour so much that I thought that he would give him the right of 'inheritance. The Prophet said : Let him who believes in God and
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