What is the meaning of the hadith of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): “None of you truly believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself”?

The questioner : He saysThe questioner : May Allah bless you. What is the translation of the hadith of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ?

The Shaykh : First, this negation is not a negation of absolute faith, such that a person becomes a disbeliever if he does not love for his Muslim brother what he loves for himself. Rather, the meaning is that he does not possess complete faith. Who? The Muslim who does not love for his Muslim brother what he loves for himself. And the meaning of a Muslim loving for his brother what he loves for himself is, without doubt, that this must be qualified in terms of wording; because it was reported, and because that is the intended meaning of this famous narration. The famous narration in the hadith is as you heard just now: . This is the hadith in the two Sahihs, but the hadith came with an addition that clarifies the meaning, which has no second. It is: . Because the hadith, in its general form, may include what is not good. For example, a man might desire to enter a cinema, so he wishes for his Muslim brother what he loves for himself. No, this meaning does not occur to the mind of a Muslim. But the qualification that came at the end of the hadith, and in an authentic narration—as it is said today, this narration puts the dots on the letters—clarifies that the intended love, the absence of which in the heart of a Muslim makes his faith deficient, is that he loves for his Muslim brother from good what he loves for himself. For example, you have beneficial knowledge, such as knowledge of the Book and the Sunnah, and of recitation, and of the Arabic language, or any beneficial knowledge. It is not permissible for you to wish to remain alone with this knowledge; rather, it is obligatory for you to wish it for every Muslim, because it is good. If you do not do so, your faith is deficient, and so you may judge other cases. Therefore, the meaning of is “from good.” And if we assume a Muslim sees a neighbor who is poor, and then wishes for him to remain poor and destitute, and does not wish for him from the wealth that Allah has given him—this is of the nature of man, as the Lord of Mankind said in the Qur’an: . The good here is wealth. When this wealthy neighbor sees his poor neighbor in extreme poverty, he must wish for him wealth like what he has. However, in connection with a previous discussion, if his earnings are from what is forbidden, he should not wish them for his poor neighbor. Rather, before all else, he must wish for himself lawful wealth, and then wish it for the Muslim, so that this hadith applies to him: .