Just as deceiving others is prohibited, similarly causing harm to others is also prohibited. Causing harm does not simply mean hiding someone’s valuable possession or breaking it. It also includes abusing someone, insulting him. All these actions also imply causing harm. In fact, hurting a person’s honour and dignity is far worse than robbing his wealth and worldly possessions.
Some times some people block the water or they waste a lot of water. Consequently others are adversely affected. Similarly, at times some people place a big boulder in the middle of the road, throw banana skins on the road, spit chewed paan (which is red in colour) indiscriminately, by which people’s clothes and walls of houses are stained. But this is of no concern to the culprits. Some times these people go as far as disposing their garbage or dirty water in the alleys.
All this amounts to causing grievous harm to others, which is strictly forbidden in Islam. Such habits can never be the signs of an Islamic society. In reality, the true Muslim is the one from whose hand and tongue others are safeguarded.
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