As for the right of the people of your creed [Muslims] in general is that...

As for the right of the people of your creed [Muslims] in general is that, you should have peaceful feelings towards them and spread the wings of mercy upon them; that you should be gentle towards the wrong-doers among them and reform them by earning their love; that you should be grateful to him who is virtuous in his character or is generous towards you, because his virtuousness of character [even without any apparent benefit to you] is in itself a generosity towards you, as he thus saved you from his misbe-haviour and spared you the effort of protecting your-self from him, and kept his troubles away from you.

Therefore, pray, when you pray, for all of them, and keep your help ready for all of them, and treat all of them according to their proper position: treat elders as you would your own father, those younger than you as you would your own child, and contemporaries as…