A Special Attribute of the Believer

Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm

Our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam says,

“المُؤمِنُ يألَفُ ويُؤلَفُ”

“The believer is friendly and can be befriended.” [Hadith]

A believer is someone who is forbearing, peaceful and gets along well with people. He gets along with people and people get along with him too. People’s temperaments are different, so tolerating them is the attribute of a believer, the attribute of the people of ṭarīqah. And that is also the attribute of our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, and something he ﷺ loves.

Therefore, a believer must get along well with people. He must tolerate them. Of course, everyone has their own temperaments, and different habits. If he doesn’t tolerate them, he decreases in rank. There is īmān and there is Islām. There is the believer and there is the Muslim. A believer is a more sincere Muslim. Everyone who is a Muslim is a Muslim.

Someone who gets along well, someone who gets along badly, someone who commits sins, someone who does evil can be a Muslim. But a believer is not like that. A believer is indeed one who: gets along well with people, performs his worship, is on the way of Allāh ﷻ, fears the ḥarām and avoids it and strives to do good.

Therefore, most of our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam’s words and ḥadīth sharīf are short, but complete. They are like that so mankind don’t forget them. If a person does them, he earns great rewards and is relieved. All of our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam’s words, advices, instructions are for our benefit, for the benefit of humanity.

May Allāh ﷻ make it easy for us to do them. May Allāh ﷻ make us successful in doing so, in shā’a Llāh. Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq.

Al-Fatiha.

• Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbaniق

19 July 2025/ 24 Muharram 1447

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