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Neighbours:

The Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) has said:

"He is not a believer who eats his fill when his neighbor beside him is hungry, and he does not believe whose neighbors are not safe from his injurious conduct."

Actually, according to the Qur-an and Sunnah a Muslim has to discharge his moral responsibility not only to his parents, relatives and neighbors, but to the whole mankind, animals and useful trees and plants. For example, hunting of birds and animals for the sake of game is not permitted. Similarly cutting trees and plants that yield fruit is forbidden unless there is a very pressing need for it.

Thus, on the basic moral characteristics, Islam builds a higher system of morality by virtue, of which mankind can realize its greatest potential. Islam purifies the soul from self-seeking egotism, tyranny, wantonness and indiscipline. It creates God-fearing men, devoted to their ideals, possessed of piety, abstinence and discipline and uncompromising with falsehood. It induces feelings of moral responsibility and fosters the capacity for self-control. Islam generates kindness, generosity, mercy, sympathy, peace, disinterested goodwill, scrupulous fairness and truthfulness towards all creation in all situations. It nourishes noble qualities, from which only good may be expected.

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