Hadith 2

‘Know, may Allah-azwj have Mercy on you, that there are rights for Allah-azwj upon you, encompassing you in every movement you make, or a stillness you are still in, or a status you are accorded, of a limb you use, or a tool you utilise with. Some of these are bigger than some. And the greatest rights of Allah-azwj upon you is what He-azwj, Blessed and Exalted, has Obligated for Himself-azwj of His-azwj right, which is the origin of the rights, and there are branches from it. Then, what He-azwj has Obligated upon you for Himself, from your head to your feet, upon the interchange of your limbs. He-azwj has Made a right for your sight upon you, and a right for your hearing upon you, and a right for your tongue upon you, and a right for your hand upon you, and a right for your leg upon you, and a right for your belly upon you, and a right for your private parts upon you. So these are the seven body parts by which the actions take place. Then the Mighty and Majestic Make rights for your actions, so He-azwj Made a right for your Salat upon you, and a right for your fasting upon you, and a right for your charity upon you, and a right for your (sacrificial) offering upon you, and a right for your actions upon them. Then He-azwj Extracted the rights from you to others, from the ones of the obligatory rights upon you, and He-azwj Obligated a right of your leaders upon you, then rights of your citizens upon you, then right of your kindred. So these are rights from which rights branch out. The rights of your leaders are three. He-azwj has Obligated upon you – right of your leader with the authority, then right of your leader with the knowledge, then right of your leader with the ownership, and every leader is an imam. And rights of your citizens are three. He-azwj has Obligated these upon you – right of your citizen with the authority, then right of your citizen with the knowledge, for the ignorant one is a citizen of the knowledgeable one, and right of your citizen with the ownership, from the spouses, and whatever is possessed from the right hands (slaves and maids). And rights of your kinship are many, connected in accordance with the connection of the kinship in the relationship. He-azwj has Obligated upon you right of your mother, then right of your father, then right of your children, then right of your brother, then closest of the relatives, and foremost of the foremost ones. The there is a right of your master, the benefactor upon you, then right of your master, the flower of his bounties upon you, then right of the one with the act of kindness to you, then right of your Muezzin with the Salat, then right of your prayer leader in your Salat, then right of your gatherer, then right of your neighbour, then right of your companion, then right of your partner, then right of your owner, then right of your creditor who seeks (demands) you, then right of your debtor whom you seek (demand), then right of your associate. Then there is a right of your contender, the claimant upon you, then a right of your contender whom you are claiming upon, then right of your consultant, then a right of the one who give you counsel, then right of one whose advice you seek, then a right of the one seeking your advice, then right of the one