ABU DHABI // The sermon this week calls on Muslims to unify to preserve the nation’s stability and security.
It calls on the faithful to keep away chaos by enlightening the ignorant and schooling the young in what the wise would do.
“Like a ship, if one suffers all suffer, and everyone is responsible for its safety. We are all partners in its development and with unified hearts and compassion we do that,” the sermon reads.
The Prophet named society a sailing ship that everyone should protect from the hardships of life to ensure a happy and safe journey, in love and brotherhood, working on cooperative benefits and pushing away evils.
The Prophet Mohammed said: “The likeness of the man who observes the limits prescribed by Allah and that of the man who transgresses them is like the people who get on board a ship after casting lots. Some of them are in its lower deck and some of them in its upper (deck). Those who are in its lower (deck), when they require water, go to the occupants of the upper deck, and say to them: ‘If we make a hole in the bottom of the ship, we shall not harm you’. If they (the occupants of the upper deck) leave them to carry out their design they all will be drowned. But if they do not let them go ahead (with their plan), all of them will remain safe.”
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