These rights are the following...

These rights are the following: • To overlook his mistakes (Muslims towards each other) • To have pity on him when he is distressed • To cover his faults • To forgive his lapses • To accept his excuses • To reject his backbiting (by others) • To keep on advising him • To observe his friendship • To observe his duties • To accept his invitation • To attend his funeral • To accept his gift • To reciprocate his visit • To thank him for any favor • To help him • To safeguard his wife • To grant his requests • To intervene for him • To pray for him when sneezing • To guide him when he goes astray • To answer his greeting • To talk kindly to him • To appreciate his favors • To accept his witnesses • To make friends with his friends and avoid bearing enmity against them • To help him, to prevent him from oppressing, and support him when he is oppressed • To avoid humiliating him • Not to betray him • To wish for him what he wishes for himself and hate for him what he hates for himself.” [^4] Abdullah ibn Sinan has reported: “I heard Imam Sadiq (AS) say: ‘observe piety and do not let people ride on your shoulders (that makes you low and servile).

Nevertheless, God says: “Speak kindly to mankind.” [^5] Visit Muslims of other sects when they are sick, attend their funerals and perform prayer with them in their mosques until you breathe your last…’”[^6] Being asked for advice, Imam Sadiq (AS) said: “It is incumbent on you to observe piety, speak truthfully, give back the trusts to their owners, keep good companionship with your companions, greet loudly, feed the poor, offer prayer in their[^7] mosques, to visit their sick people and to attend their funerals.

My father told me a tradition that our Shia (followers), we the Ahlul Bayt, are the best of people; if one of them was a jurisprudent, he would be the best of them (jurisprudents), if he was a muezzin, he would be the best of them (muezzins), if he was an imam, he would be the best of them, if he was a man of trust, he would be the best of them and if he was a man of deposit, he would be the best of them.