If there is one lesson our dīn repeatedly teaches, it is that Allāh treats you the way that you treat others, especially the ones who are below you.
This teaching is so consequential that it is almost as if you are given a choice of how you want to be treated by Allāh in this life and in the Next simply by your treatment of those around you.
Take the following ḥadīth narrated by Muslim as an example.
Rasūl Allāh ﷺ said, “The angels took the soul of a man from a people that came before you. They said to him, ‘Did you do any good deeds?’
He said, ’No.’
They said, ‘Try to remember.’
He said, ‘I used to lend money to people and I would tell my servants to give more time to those in difficulty and to be easy with (forgo) those who were well off.’
The angels said, ‘Allāh said to us: Forgo his [bad] deeds.’”
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