The Brothers
Most of us have siblings, yet we are more close to someone who are not related to us, those without blood bond, those who are dearer to us than our own kin.
Unexpected words uttered from the mouth of others can change how we treat them for perpetual, when those simple words are so profound and so insightful, touching our very conscience and come from unexpected people, while we are wishing our dearest someone to say it to us.
These people I mentioned, I style them as “brothers of my own”, as we are not related by
blood. We do not share parents or kins. Nevertheless, we manage to get along so well, more than a sibling would be to me.
Narrated by Imam Bukhari and Muslim, narrated by Abu Hurairah;
Allah will give shade to seven, at the day when there is no shade but his. (The seven persons are) just ruler, a youth who was brought up in (sincerely) worshipping his God, a man whose heart is attached to the masjid, two persons who love each other for Allah sake and they meet and they depart in Allah cause only…
“Why couldn’t I have a brother just like you.”
“He is like my own brother, mum.”
To the persons who did dare to utter such words before me, I will act like one for you…
