Life-of-Muhammad

Life of Muhammad sa 233bours driving pegs into their walls or putting them toany other use which occasioned no injury." AbuHuraira ra relates: "The Prophet sa said: ‘He who believesin God and in the Day of Judgement should occasion noinconvenience to his neighbour: he who believes in Godand in the Day of Judgement should occasion noinconvenience to his guest, and he who believes in Godand in the Day of Judgement should utter only words ofvirtue or should keep quiet' " (Muslim).TREATMENT OF RELATIVESMost people suffer from the failing that when theymarry and set up house for themselves, they begin toneglect their parents. The Holy Prophet sa , therefore, laidgreat stress upon the meritoriousness of serving one'sparents and treating them with kindness andconsideration. Abu Huraira ra relates: "A man came tothe Holy Prophet sa and asked to be told who was mostdeserving of kind treatment at his hands. The Prophet sareplied: ‘Your mother'. The man asked 'And next to her?'The Prophet sa repeated, 'Again thy mother'. The manasked a third time, 'And after my mother?' and theProphet sa again replied, Still thy mother', and when theman asked him a fourth time, he said: 'After her thyfather and after him thy nearest relatives and after themthy more remote relatives.' "The Prophet's sa own parentsand grand parents had died while he was still a child.The parents of some of his wives were, however, aliveand he always treated them with great considerationand deference. On the occasion of the surrender ofMecca when the Holy Prophet sa entered the town as avictorious general, Abu Bakr ra brought his father to meethim. He said to Abu Bakr ra : "Why did you trouble yourfather to come to me? I would gladly have gone to himmyself" (Halbiyya, Vol. 3, p. 99). One of his sayings was:"Unlucky is the man whose parents live to old age andhe fails to earn Paradise even then", meaning that the