The famous prophetic hadith:
الاختلاف بين امتي رحمة
al-Ikhtilaafu bayna ummati rahmah
The differences between my Ummah is a (source of) mercy
Is something that is often quoted but more often misunderstood. Our teacher would say that Ikhtilaaf here means mingling and visiting each other just as in the famous attribute of the Ahl al-Bayt (a) 'mukhtalaful malaa'ikah' – so the meaning of this tradition would be: The mingling and visiting each other of (members of) my Ummah is a mercy.
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