Rights of Neighbors Neighbor must be treated with kindness and courtesy...

Rights of Neighbors Neighbor must be treated with kindness and courtesy, such as greeting him, visiting him during ailment, congratulating him in joys, consoling him in sorrows, casting the eyes down against his harem, overlooking his flaws, abstaining from harming him, aiding him if he his needy, borrowing him the household tools, and advising him when he goes astray from the right path.

It is related that one of the neighbors of Abu Dalaf, in Baghdad, had to sell his house because of debts and crises that had befallen him. ‘I sell it with one thousand dinars,’ he said to the purchasers. ‘But the real value of your house is only five hundred dinars,’ they said.

‘This is true,’ he asserted, ‘but the neighborhood of Abu Dalaf is the other five hundred dirhams.’ When Abu Dalaf heard this story, he defrayed the debts of his neighbor and aided him so as to save him from selling his house. [^1]: Quoted from al-Wafi; part 3 page 97 (as quoted from al-Kafi). [^2]: Quoted from al-Wafi; part 3 page 96 (as quoted from al-Kafi). [^3]: Quoted from al-Wafi; part 3 page 96 (as quoted from al-Kafi). [^4]: Quoted from al-Wafi; part 3 page 96 (as quoted from al-Kafi).

[^5]: Quoted from al-Wafi; part 3 page 96 (as quoted from al-Kafi). [^6]: Quoted from al-Wafi; part 3 page 96 (as quoted from al-Kafi). Previous…