Do as you would be Done By

There is a universal moral rule in life that all wise believers (and sensible people in general) have ascribed to over the ages. It is a principle that has been recorded as key to human moral and social well being in all half decent civilizations from ancient times onwards and it has come from the mouths of sages from every continent from the earliest times of written history onwards. 

In the surviving book that purports to be the Torah/Tawrah it is written ‘

“..Love your neighbour as yourself, I am the Lord…

.(Leviticus 19,18)”,

whilst Confucius, the great moral philosopher of ancient China, is reported to have warned people not to do unto others what you would not not want them to do to you (Analects 15, 24),

whilst Jesus son of Mary (as) is reported to have reminded the people to do unto others as they would have them do unto themselves in various ways, these were apparently recorded the Book of Matthew 7,12 and 22,39 and also Luke 6,31 and 10,25-8 these books purporting to be part of the Gospels, although not surviving in their original form) and similar may be found in the Book of the Tobit (4,15)…

…and most importantly the Holy Prophet Muhammad (saws) reminded us in his Farewell Sermon to avoid hurting others so that they may avoid hurting ourselves and it is recorded in Nawawi’s 40 Hadith that no one truly believes until they wish for their brother what they wish for themselves.

Wise and spiritually healthy people follow this rule – that a person should treat others considerately, according to how one would like others to treat them and they should not treat others in ways they would not like to be treated.

This principle is an essential basis for the functioning of society and a person attempting to live by this rule will, God willing, try to treat all other people, and even all other fellow feeling creatures, in a humane and considerate way.

Abdur Raheem.