Eliminating harm is one of the universal principles of the Islamic Laws of Islam. Islam enacted laws and legislations, and established guidelines that protect a Muslim from harm, and from inflicting it on others. In this hadeeth, the Prophet ﷺ forbade harming others by denying them water that is in excess of one’s need. He ﷺ said: “Do not withhold superfluous water, for that will prevent people from grazing their cattle.” The Arabic word used in the hadeeth is Kala’ meaning dry or wet grass. The hadeeth means that when one digs up a well in an uncultivated land where grass grows around or near his well, making it a suitable pasture for grazing animals, and there is no other source of water available, the shepherds would essentially need access to this well when grazing their animals. The owner of such a well must not prevent them from accessing the well, and thereby deliberately deny them access to the pasture. The Prophet ﷺ forbade a Muslim from denying others access to his surplus water beyond his needs. He is also forbidden from selling such surplus water to those shepherds, because if he sells them the water that is necessary for grazing their animals, it would be the same as selling them the grass to graze their cattle, and he does not own such grass. The Prophet ﷺ said: “Excess water must not be sold…” [Muslim]. This means that one must not deny others his surplus water when they do not another source of water available to them, because this implies harming Muslims, and harm must be eliminatedas per the laws of Islam. .