In The Name of Allah The Most Gracious The Most Merciful,
Day 5 of the Dakwah Training.
The author was asked, what is the most beautiful thing in Islam? Personally, the author feels that one of the most beautiful thing in Islam is brotherhood. It is a beautiful thing which Islam practices, where we regard every other Muslims as our brothers and sisters. Anywhere we go, when we found Muslim brother/sister we would be very happy, we greet, we hug each other (brothers with brothers, sisters with sisters), and it somehow feels homely.
it reminds the author when she became a volunteer, along with her friends for Asian Youth Games hosted by her country 6 years back. She was assigned to accompany the athletes at the airport. Turned out that those athletes were Muslim athletes from Iran. They were delighted upon meeting the author and her friends and started to take picture here together.. "It is okay.. we Muslims are brothers and sisters" the leader of the team smiled.
In the mosque, though we might not know each other, we can pray together, shoulder by shoulder.. after we pray, we shake hands, say salam, hug each other.. it is such a wonderful scene to see and what more to experience it. There is no doubt that by praying jamaah (praying together) actually helps to strengthen ukhuwwah - relationship between the Muslims.
Brotherhood. Ukhuwwah.
That is what stated in the Quran, Surah Al-Hujurat verse 10, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
إِنَّمَا الْمُؤْمِنُونَ إِخْوَةٌ فَأَصْلِحُوا بَيْنَ أَخَوَيْكُمْ ۚ وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُرْحَمُونَ
The believers are but brothers, so make settlement between your brothers. And fear Allah that you may receive mercy.
p.s. Dr Feham Ghalib shared with us this awesome quranic website http://corpus.quran.com
it has the aayat, translation, tafseer, and also it might benefit arab linguist, or those taking arabic language as their field if you want to refer the grammatical or syntactical part of the word/ayat.
