“Whoever walks with his brother regarding a need until he secures it for him, then Allāh the Exalted will make his footing firm across the bridge on the day when the footings are shaken.” [Mu’jam Al-Awsat At-Tabarani 6192]

When the Rasool ﷺ returned back home to Khadijah RA after he encountered Jibreel AS for the first time, she covered him and reassured him that Allāh would not forsake him. Why? Does she tell him that he wouldn’t be forsaken because he was a man of ‘Ibaadah (worship), or because he abstained from sin?

No, she tells him that Allāh would never forsake him because he maintains the ties of kinship, he honours his guests, he looks after the poor and needy and that he assists those who are stricken by calamity.

What do all these have in common? That all of them are about how beautifully the Rasool ﷺ took care of others, their affairs, their difficulties and their needs.

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The list that Khadijah RA provides revolves entirely around the Rasool ﷺ in relation to other people. It wasn’t about his own private ‘Ibaadah but about how he cared and honored his relationships, giving them their rights.

Really understand the magnitude and value of aiding others, such that Khadijah RA reassures him that these are the reasons why Allāh would protect him.

Even the ayah found in Surah Hujuraat reiterates the intimacy of our bond as believers – “Indeed the brothers are but believers.” The Arabic word ‘ikhwah’ as in this ayah, we encounter elsewhere in the Qurān – where? In Surah Yusuf. And what bond does Surah Yusuf focus on? A bond that was bound by blood.

And so, the relationship between the believers is akin to being related by blood, just like Yusuf AS and his brothers.

When our siblings are in distress, do we not grieve ourselves and share their sorrows and pain? Do we not rush to aid them with whatever is in our capacity? Similarly, the same intense love should be felt towards our believing brothers and sisters here in the UK and the world, our ummah.

In Sahih Muslim, the Rasool ﷺ reiterates, “Allāh is in aid of the believer, so long as the believer is in aid of his brother.”

At times we feel distant from the sayings of the Rasool ﷺ, and we struggle to live them. But he was the best of creation, Allāh’s Habib (beloved), and it is he that reassures us of Allāh’s divine intervention in our own lives when we aid others. Certainly it is a difficult task to be in aid of others when you are experiencing trial and tribulation yourself, but know that if you are in trial and tribulation – your relief lies in aiding others. When someone knocks on your door for aid, know that they are knocking because they have identified you as a person of noble character, someone who resembles the Rasool ﷺ.

When you remove someone else’s difficulty, Allāh makes easy for you your affairs not just on this dunya, but the akhirah too. And so when you aid your brother, you make no loss – undoubtedly, you are a winner both in this dunya and the akhirah.