DO NOT CAUSE HARM TO OTHER PEOPLE: 25

MAKING THE WALKWAYS DIRTY IS A SIN

A number of times people throw rubbish on the roads or walkways. If someone slips on that, or it cause distress or inconvenience to someone, then it becomes a sin of causing harm to a person. Even if it does not cause harm to anyone, making the common pathways dirty is a sin in itself. In a Hadith, the Holy Prophet ﷺ said, “There are more than seventy compartments of Iman (faith). The highest compartment of Iman is saying لا الہ الا اللہ محمد الرسول اللہ and the lowest is that a person removes things which are dirty or may cause inconvenience or harm to someone from the pathways.” For example, there were some thorns or stones in the walkways which could have hurt someone. If a person removes them from the pathways so that they do not harm anyone, then this is the most inferior compartment of Iman. If removing harmful things from pathways is a compartment of Iman, then, conversely, littering pathways would be considered a compartment of disbelief (kufr).