What is your opinion on the view that one must fulfill the rights of others and seek rights from Allah, based on the premise that the questioning on the Day of Judgment will be about people's rights and not about an individual claiming their own rights, and does this contradict the Hadith, "He who is silent about his right is a mute devil"?
A Muslim must fulfill the rights due to Allah and to His servants with religious conviction. It is also their right to demand their rights from others if they fall short in fulfilling them, or to waive them. This does not contradict asking Allah for ease in obtaining what is rightfully theirs and being content with His decree. Whoever does not receive their rights in this world will receive them in the Hereafter. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, commanded the fulfillment of rights and patience during times of tribulation, for he said: "You fulfill the right due upon you, and you ask Allah for that which is due to you." A Muslim's silence about their right or waiving it does not contradict the saying, "He who is silent about the truth is a mute devil," for this saying pertains to being silent about evil and not denouncing it, not to a person's silence about their own personal right.
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