SundayApr 20, 2025
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Sleep is the brother of death.
Death is a bridge that uniteth friend with friend.
The grave is the first stage of the journey into eternity.
There are two things disliked by the sons of Adam, one of them death; whereas it is better for Muslims than sinning; the second is scarcity of money; whereas its account will be small in futurity.
Death is a blessing to a Muslim. Remember and speak well of your dead, and refrain from speaking ill of them.
The Faithful do not die; perhaps they become translated from this perishable world to the world of eternal existences.
Not one of you must wish for death from any wordly affliction; but if there certainly is anyone wishing for death, he must say, 'O Lord, keep me alive so long as life may be good for me, and wish me to die when it is better for me so to do.'
Remember often the destroyer and cutter off of delights, which is death.
Wish not for death any of you; neither the doer of good works, for peradventure he may increase them by an increase of life; nor the offender, for perhaps he may obtain the forgiveness of God by repentance. Wish not, nor supplicate for death before its time cometh; for verily when ye die, hope is out and the ambition for reward: and verily, the increase of a Mumins' (Muslim's) life increaseth his good works.
When the bier of anyone passeth by thee, whether Jew, Christian, or Muslim, rise to thy feet.
Do not speak ill of the dead.
And behold! a bier passed by Muhammad, and he stood up; and it was said to him, 'This is the bier of a Jew.' He said, 'Was it not the holder of a soul, from which we should take example and fear?'
Whoever bringeth the dead land to life; that is cultivateth waste land, for him is reward therein.
There is no Muslim who planteth a tree, or soweth a field, and man birds or beast eat from them, but it is charity for him.
The greatest crimes are to associate another with God, to vex your father and mother, to murder your own species, to commit suicide, and to swear to lie.
When three persons are together, two of them must not whisper to each other without letting the third hear, until others are present, because it would hurt him.
Meekness and modesty are two branches of Iman (Faith); and vain talking and embellishing are two brances of hypocrisy.
It is of my ways that a man shall come out with his guest to the door of his house.
When victuals are placed before you no man must stand up till it be taken away; nor must one man leave off eating before the rest; and if he doeth he must make an apology.
Abuse nobody, and if a man abuse thee, and lay upon a vice which he knoweth in thee; then do not disclose one which thou knowest in him.
Being confined for room, the Apostle of god sat down upon his legs drawn up under his thighs. A desert Arab who was present said, 'What is this way of sitting?' Muhammad said, 'Verily God hath made me a humble servant, and not a proud king.'
Respect people according to their eminence.
'O Apostle of God! Inform, Inform me, if I stop with a man, and he doth not entertain me, and he afterwards stoppeth at my house, am I to entertain him or to act with him as he with did me?' Muhammad said, 'Entertain him.'
No man hath given his child anything better than good manners.
It is not right for a guest to stay so long as to incommode his host.
Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better for him than giving one bushel of grain in alms.
Humility and courtesy are acts of piety.
No person hath drunk a better draught than that of anger which he hath swallowed for God's sake.
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger.
'Give me advice,' said someone. Muhammad said, Be not angry.'
May God fill the heart of that person who suppresseth his anger with safety and faith.
That person is wise and sensible who subdueth his carnal desires and hopeth for rewards from God; and he is an ignorant man who followeth his lustful appetites, and with all this asketh for God's forgiveness.
Whoever suppresseth his anger, when he hath in his power to show it, God will give him great reward.
Whoever hath been given gentleness, hath been given a good portion in this world and the next.
A man cannot be a Muslim till his heart and tongue are so.
The exercise of religious duty will not atone for the fault of an abusive tongue.
God loveth those who are content.
Look to those inferior to yourselves, so that you may not hold God's benefits in contempt.
When you see a person, who has been given more than you in money and beauty; then look to those who have been given less.
Riches are not from an abundance of wordly goods, but from a contented mind.
All actions are judged by the motive prompting them.
A man asked Muhammad what was the mark whereby he might know the reality of his faith. Muhammad said, 'If thou derive pleasure from the good which thou hast performed and thou be grieved for the evil which thou hast committed, thou art a true believer.' The man said. 'In what doth a fault really consist?' Muhammad said, 'when action pricketh thy conscience, forsake it.'
When one of the family of Muhammad died, and the women assemnled, crying over the corpse, Omar stood up to prevent them from crying, and drive them away: but Muhammad said, 'Let them alone, O Omar, because eyes are shedding tears; and the heart is stricken with calamity and sorrowful; and the time of misfortune near and fresh; and the crying of women is without wailing.'
Muhammad said, 'Do you think this woman will cast her own child into the fire?' Those present said, 'No.' Muhammad said, 'Verily God is more compassionate on His creatures, than this woman on her own child.'
Once Muhammad went together with some of his companions to Abu Yusuf, a blacksmith who was the husband of the nurse of Muhammad's son Ibrahim. And the Apostle of God took Ibrahim and kissed him and embraced him. On another occasion they went to see Ibrahim, when he was in his dying moments. The eyes of Muhammad were fixed, and flowed with tears; and Abd-al-Rahman, son of Auf, said to the Messenger of God, 'Do you weepand shed tears, O Apostle of God?' He said, 'O son of Auf, these are tears of compassion, and feeling due to the dead.' After that he shed tears again, and said, 'Verily my eyes shed tears and my heart is afflicted, and I say nothing but what is pleasing to my Benefactor; for verily, O Ibrahim, I am melancholy at being separated from thee.'
There is no reward but Paradise for a Muslim who suffereth with patience when the soul of his affectionate friend is taken.
The Apostle of God wept over Sad b. Ubadah. And he said, 'Have not you heard that the Lord doth not punish on account of shedding tears, not from sobs of the heart from the afflicted?' He is not of the people of our way who slappeth his cheeks and teareth his collar, and mourneth like the mournings of Ignorance.
When the child (of Zainab) was brought to Muhammad, dying; its body trembling and moving; the eyes of the Apostle of God shed many tears. And Sad said, 'O Messenger of God! What is the weeping and shedding of tears?' Muhammad replied, 'This is an expression of the tenderness and compassion, which the Lord hath put into the hearts of His servants; the Lord doth not have compassion on and commiserate with His servants, except such as are tender and full of feeling.'
God is pure and loveth purity and cleanliness.
Were it not for fear of troubling my disciples, verily I would order them to clean their teeth before every prayer.
When the bier of anyone passeth by thee, whether Jew, Christian or Muslim, rise to thy feet.
Do not exceed bounds in praising me, as the Christians do in praising Jesus, the son of Mary, by calling Him God, and the Son of God; I am only the Lord's servant; then call me the servant of God and His messenger.
Muhammad once referred to strife, and said, 'It will appear at the time of knowledge leaving the world.' Ziad said, 'O Messenger of God, how will knowledge go from the world, since we read the Kuran, and teach it to our children, and our children to theirs; and so on till the last day?' Then Muhammad said, 'O Ziad, I supposed you the most learned man of Medinah. Do the Jews and Christians who read the Bible and the Evangel act on them?'
Modesty and chastity are part of the faith.
Your smiling in your brother's face is charity; and your exhorting man to virtuous deeds is charity; and your prohibiting the forbidden is charity; and your showing men the road, in the land in which they lose it, is charity; and your assisting the blind is charity.
Every good act is charity; and verily it is a good act to meet your brother with and open countenance, and to por water from your own water-bag into his vessel.
Doing justice between two people is charity; and asisting a man upon his beast, and lifting his baggage is charity; and pure, comforting words are charity; and answering a questioner with mildness, is charity; and removing that which is an inconvenience to wayfarers, such as thorns and stones, is a charity.
Every good act is charity.
Whoso hath left debt and children, let him come to me; I am their patron, I will discharge his debt and befriend his children.
When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust; commit not fornication; be chaste; have no impure desires; withold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad. The best of God's servants are those who when seen, remind of God; and the worst of God's servants are those who carry tales about, and do mischief and separate friends, and seek for the defects of the good.
Charity is a duty unto every Muslim. He who hath not the means thereto, let him do a good act or abstain from an evil one. That is his charity.
Prayers lighten the heart, and charity is proof of Iman (Faith), and abstinence from sin is perfect splendor; the Kuran is a proof of gain to you, if you do good, and it is a detriment to you if you do wrong; and every man who riseth in the morning either doeth that which will be the means of his redemption or his ruin.
Charity that is concealeth appeaseth the wrath of God.
There are two benefits, of which the generality of men are the losers, and of which they do not know the value.
'May I beg from people, O Messenger of God, when necessitous?' Muhammad said, 'Do not beg unless absolutely compelled, then only from the virtuous.'
Verily it is not right for the rich to ask, nor for a strong, robust person; but it is allowed for the indigent and the infirm.
Whoever hath food for a day and a night, it is prohibited for him to beg.
Verily it is better for any of you to take your rope and bring a bundle of wood upon your back and sell it, in which case God guardeth your honor than to beg of people, whether they give or not; if they do not give, your reputation suffereth, and you return disappointed; and if they give, it is worse than that, for it layeth you under obligation.
Whoso openeth unto himself the door of begging, God will open unto him the door of poverty.
Verily God loveth a Muslim with a family, who is poor, and witholdeth himself from the unlawful and from begging.
Every man who shall beg, in order to increase his property, God will diminish it.
Muhammad said, 'That person will not enter Paradise who hath one atom of pride in his heart.' And a man present said, 'Verily, a man is fond of having good clothes, and good shoes.' Muhammad said, 'God is Beauty and delighteth in the beautiful; but pride is holding man in contempt.'
Backbiting vitiates ablution and fasting.
A young man came before the Rasul with a carpet and said, 'O Rasul! I passed through a wood and heard the voices of young birds; and I took and put them into my carpet; and their mother came fluttering around my head, and I uncovered the young, and the mother fell down upon them, then I wrapped them up in my carpet; and there are the young which I have.' Then the Rasul said, 'Put them down.' And when he did so, their mother joined them: and Muhammad said, 'Do you wonder at the affection of the mother towards her young? I swear by Him who hath sent me, verily God is more loving to His creatures than the mother to these young birds. Return them to the place from which ye took them, and let their mother be with them.'
Verily God hath one hundred loving kindnesses; one of which he hath sent down amongst man, quadrupeds, and every moving thing upon the face of the earth: by it they are kind to each other, and forgive one another; and by it the animals of the wilds are kind to their young; and God hath reserved ninety-nine loving kindnesses by which he will be gracious to His creatures on the last day.
'Are there rewards for doing good to quadrupeds, and givng them water to drink?' Muhammad said, 'Verily there are heavenly rewards for any act of kindness to a live animal.'
A woman was punished for a cat which she tied till it died from hunger. She gave the cat nothing to eat, nor did she set it at liberty so that it might find some food.
An adultress passed by a dog at a well; and the dog was holding out his tongue from thirst, which was near killing him, and the woman drew off her boot, and tied it to the end of her garment, and drew water for the dog, and gave him to drink; and she was forgiven for that act.
Fear God, in treating dumb animals and ride them when they are fit to be ridden and get off them when they are tired.
A man's first duty should be to his own family, if poor.
Giving alms to the poor hath the reward of one alms; but that given to kindred hath two rewards; one, the reward of alms, the other the reward of helping relations.
The most excellent of alms is that of a man of small property, which he has earned by labor, and from which he giveth as much as he is able.
The angels asked, 'O God! Is there anything of Thy creation stronger than rocks?' God said, 'Yes; iron is stronger than rocks, for it breaketh them.' The angels said, 'O Lord! Is there anything of Thy creation stornger than iron?' God said, 'Yes; fire is stronger than iron, for it melteth it.' And the angels said, O defender! Is there anything of Thy creation stronger than fire?' God said, 'Yes; water overcometh fire; it killeth it and maketh it cold.' Then the angels said, 'O Lord! Is there anything of Thy creation stronger than water?' God said, 'Yes; wind overcometh water: it agitateth it and putteth it in motion.' They said, 'O our cherisher! Is there anything in Thy creation stronger than wind?' God said, 'Yes, the children of Adam, giving alms; that is, those who give with their right hands and conceal if from their left, they overcome all.'
The people of the Rasul's house killed a goat, and the Rasul enquired, 'What remaineth of it?' Aishah said, 'Nothing but its shoulder; for we have sent the rest to the poor and neighbors.' The Rasul said, 'The whole goat remaineth except its shoulder; that is, that remaineth which ye have given away, and what ye have kept in the house is frail.'
Muhammad said, 'It is indispensable for every Muslim to give alms.' The companions asked, 'But if he hath not anything to give?' He said, 'If he hath nothing, he must do a work with his hand, by which to obtain something and benefit himself; and give alms with the remainder.' They said, 'But if he is not able to do that work, to benefit himself and give alms to others?' The Rasul (Muhammad) said, 'Then he should assist the needy and the oppressed.' They asked, 'What if he is not able to assist the oppressed?' He said, 'Then he should exhort people to do good.' They asked, 'And if he cannot?' He said, 'Then let him withold himself from doing harm to people; for verily that is as alms and charity for him.'
There are seven people whom God will draw under His own shadow, on the day when there will be no other shadow; one of them a man who hath given alms and concealed it, so that his left hand knew not what his right hand did.
Almsgiving is duty unto you. Alms should be taken from the rich and returned to the poor.
The best of almsgiving is that which springeth from the heart, and is uttered by the lips to soften the wounds of the injured.
The best of alms is that which the right hand giveth, and the left hand knoweth not of.
Verily, to honor an old man is showing respect to God.
To every young person who honors the old, on account of their age, may god apoint those who shall honor him in his years.
Every eye is an adulterer; and every woman perfumeth herself, and goeth to an assembly where men are, wishing to show herself to them, with a look of lasciviousness, is an adultress.
Ye followers of Muhammad, I swear of God, there is not anything which God so abhors, as adultery.
The adultery of the eye is to look with desire on the wife of another; and the adultery of the tongue is to utter what is forbidden.
When a man committeth adultery, Iman (Faith) leaveth him; but when he leaveth such evil ways, Iman wil return to him.
Keep fast and eat also, stay awake at night and sleep also, for verily there is a duty on you to your body, not to labor overmuch, so that ye may not get ill and destroy yourselves; and verily there is a duty on you to your eyes, ye must sometimes sleep and give them rest; and verily there is a duty on you to your wife, and to your visitors and guests that come to see you; ye must talk to them; and nobody hath kept fast who fasted always; the fast of three days in every month is equal to constant fasting: then keep three days' fast in every month.
The man I most emulate is a Muslim unencumbered; a man of small family, and little money, a performer of prayers and a perfect worshipper of God in private, one who is unknown, and hath enough to supply his wants, and when he dieth, he will leave few women to cry for him, and few legacies.
S'ad b. Abi Wakkas said: The apostle forbade Uthman b. Mazun from avoiding marriage: and if he had permitted that to him, we would have become eunuchs.'
There is no monasticism in Islam.
Torment not yourselves, lest God punish you.
A man while fasting must abstain from all bad expressions and must not even resent an injury.
A man once said to Muhammad, 'O Messenger of God, permit me to become a Eunuch.' He said, 'That person is not of me who maketh another a eunuch, or becometh so himself; because the manner in which my followers become eunuchs is by fasting and abstinence.' The man said permit me to retire from society, and to abandon the delights of the world.' He said, 'The retirement that becometh my followers is to live in the world and yet to sit in the corner of a mosque in expectation of prayers.'
A keeper of the fast, who doth not abandon lying and detraction, God careth not about his leaving off eating and drinking.
The nearest to me are the abstinent, whoever they are, wherever they are.
The world is sweet in the heart, and green to the eye; and verily God hath brought you, after those who went before you: then look to your action, and abstain from the world of wickedness.
Illumine your hearts with hunger, and strive to conquer yourself with hunger and thirst; continue to knock on the gates of paradise by hunger.
Kill not your hearts with excess of eating and drinking.
Remember the lord in retirement from the people and make prayer thy sleep, and hunger thy food.
There is a devil in every berry of the grape.
If anyone withholds grain for forty days thereby desiring a high price, has renounced God and God has renounced him.
The man who withholds goods is evil. If God lowers prices he is grieved, and if He raises then he is happy.
When you visit an invalid tell him to make a supplication for you, for his supplication is like of the angels.
Gold is to be paid by gold, silver by silver, wheat by wheat, barley by barley, dates by dates and salt by salt, like for like, payment being made on the spot. If anyone gives more or asks for more, he has dealt in usury. The receiver and the giver are equally guilty.
No body which has been nourished with what is unlawful will enter paradise.
Flesh which has grown out of what is unlawful will not enter paradise, but hell is more fitting for all flesh which has grown out of what is unlawful.
If anyone buys a garment for ten dirhams among which one is unlawfully acquired, God most high will not accept prayer from him as long as he wears it.
Adhere to truth, for truth leads to good deeds and good deeds leads him who does them to paradise. Falsehood is wickedness and wickedness leads to hell.
A man's true wealth here after is the good he does in this world to his fellow man.
If people knew what I know about the dangers of being alone, no rider would travel alone at night.
He who remembers his Lord and he who does not are like the living and dead.
That which is lawful is plain and that which is unlawful is plain and between the two if them are doubtful matters about which not many people know. Thus he who avoids doubtful matters clears himself in regard to his religion and his honour, but he who falls into doubtful matters falls into that which is unlawful, like the shepherd who pastures around the sanctuary, all but grazing therein. Truly every king has a sanctuary, and truly Allah's sanctuary is His prohibitions. Truly in the body there is a morsel of flesh which, if diseased, all of it is diseased. Truly it is the heart.
Nothing but supplication averts the decree, and nothing but righteousness increases life.
He who throws himself from a mountain and kills himself will be thrown down in the fire of hell and remain in it for ever and ever; he who sips poison and kills himself will have his poison in his hand will sip it for ever and ever in the fire of hell.
If anyone gets up from where he has been sitting and comes back, he has no right to it.
A man must not make another get up from his place and then occupy it himself, but you should spread out and make room.
If you spend (to help others), O son of Adam! I [God] shall spend on you.
A believer's soul is attached to his debt till it is paid.
If anyone guarantees me what is between his jaws and what is between his legs (i.e. he should not commit fornication), I shall guarantee him paradise.
If you guarantee me six things on your part, I shall guarantee you paradise: speak the truth when you talk, keep a promise when you make it, when you are trusted with something fulfill your trust, avoid sexual immorality, lower your eyes and restrain your hand from injustice.
There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust.
Shedding of blood will be the first matter about which judgment will be given on the Day of Resurrection.
Avoid the seven noxious things. (1) Associating anything with God, (2) magic, (3) killing one whom God has declared inviolate without a just cause, (4) devouring usury, (5) consuming the property of an orphan, running back from the battlefield and, (7) slandering chaste women who are believers but indiscreet.
The search of knowledge is an obligation laid on every Muslim.
Those who are nearest to God are they who are first to give a salutation.
There are six good qualities which one believer should display to another; he should visit him when he is ill, be present when he dies, accept his invitation when he gives one, salute him when he meets him, say 'God have mercy on you' when he sneezes and act sincerely towards him whether he is absent or present.
One who is riding should salute one who is walking, one who is walking should salute one who is sitting and a small company should salute a large one.
As you will be so will you have rulers put over you.
Righteousness is good morality, and wrongdoing is that which wavers in your soul and which you dislike people finding out about.
Righteousness is good character, and sin is that which revolves in your heart and which you do not want people to know.
Reviling a Muslim is disobedience to God, and fighting with him is infidelity.
He who grants a respite to one who is in straightened circumstances or who remits his debt, will be saved by God from the anxieties of the Day of Resurrection.
A time is coming to mankind when only the receiver of usury will remain and if he does not receive it, some of its vapour will reach him.
The man who is most hateful to God is the one who quarrels and disputes most.
The one who would have the worst position in God's sight on the Day of Resurrection would be a learned man who did not profit from his learning.
The whole world is to be enjoyed, but the best thing in the world is a pious woman.
It is not allowable for a man to come in between two people without their permission.
'What rights can parents demand from their children?' He (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) replied, 'They are your paradise and your hell.'
A believer must not hate his wife, and if he is displeased with one bad quality in her, then let him be pleased with one that is good in her.
Among the believers who show most perfect faith are those who have best disposition and are kindest to their families.
'Messenger of God, who is most deserving of friendly care from me?' He (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) replied, 'Your mother.' He asked who came next, and He (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) replied, 'Your mother.' He asked who came next and He (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) replied, 'Your mother.' He asked who came next and He (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) replied, 'Your father.'
Modesty is part of faith and faith is in paradise, but obscenity is part of hardness of heart and hardness of heart is in hell.
He does not belong to us who does not show mercy to our young ones and respect to our old ones, who does not recommend what is reputable and prohibit what is disreputable.
Those who are merciful have mercy shown them by the Compassionate One, if you show mercy to those who are in the earth, He Who is in heaven will show mercy to you.
If anyone accepts others belongings meaning to pay back, God will pay back for him, but if anyone accepts them meaning to squander them, God will on that account destroy his property.
When a woman observes the five time of prayers, fasts during Ramadan, preserves her chastity, and obeys her husband, she may enter by any of the gates of paradise she wishes.
After fear of God, a believer gains nothing better for him than a good wife who obeys him if he gives her a command, pleases him if he looks at her, is true to him if he adjures her to do something, and is sincere towards him regarding her person and his property if he is absent.
Young men, those of you who can support a wife should marry, for it keeps you from looking at strange women and preserves you from immorality, but those who cannot, should devote themselves to fasting, for it is a means of suppressing sexual desire.
When a man marries, he has fulfilled half of the religion, so let him fear God regarding the remaining half.
Mention God's name, eat with your right hand and eat from what is next to you.
Umar reported the Prophet saying, 'Whenever a man is alone with a woman the devil makes a third.'
When a man makes a loan to another, he must not accept a present.
The major sins are associating other objects of worship with God, disobedience to parents, murder, and deliberate perjury.
A time will come to mankind when man will not care whether what he gets comes from a lawful or an unlawful source.
There is not an animal on the earth, nor a flying creature on two wings, but they are people like unto you.
The one who will be dearest to God and nearest to Him in the station on the Day of Resurrection will be a just imam and the one who will be most hateful to God on the Day of Resurrection, and will receive the severest punishment will be a tyrannical imam.
No judge must give judgment between two people when he is angry.
He who believes in God and the Last Day should honour his guest. Provisions for the road are what will serve for a day and night; hospitality extends for three days; what goes beyond that is Sadqa (charity); and it is not allowable that a guest should stay till he makes himself encumbrance.
Eat together and not separately, for the blessings [are] associated with the company.
He who believes in God and the Last Day should honour his guest; he who believes in God and the Last Day should not annoy his neighbours; and he who believes in God and the Last Day should say what is good or keep silent.
If anyone keeps goods till the price rises, he is a sinner.
He who brings goods for sale is blessed with good fortune, but he who keeps them till the price rises is accursed.
Do not ask for any high office, for if you are given it after asking, you will be left to discharge it yourself; if you are given it without asking you will be helped to discharge it.
Two hungry wolves do not do so much havoc to a flock of sheep as greed and desire do to one's religion.
A man is granted supplication provided he does not ask for anything sinful or for breaking ties of relationship.
He who does a good deed will have ten times the amount of blessings, and I [God] shall give more, but he who does an evil deed will have an equivalent reward of evil, or I shall grant forgiveness. If anyone draws the length of a span near Me, I shall draw the length of a cubit near him, and if anyone draws the length of a cubit near Me, I shall draw the length of a fathom near him. If anyone comes to Me walking I shall come to him at a run, and if anyone meets me with sins of the size of the earth, but has not associated anything with Me, I shall meet him a similar amount of forgiveness.
When he dies, people will say, 'What property has he left behind him?' But the angels will ask, 'What good deeds has he sent before him?'
Do you know the thing which most commonly brings people into paradise? It is fear of God and good character. Do you know what most commonly brings people to hell? It is the hollow things; the mouth and the private parts.
You have two characters which God likes; gentleness and deliberation.
He who is deprived of gentleness is deprived of good.
Four characteristics constitute anyone who possesses them a sheer hypocrite, and anyone who possesses one of them possesses a characteristic of hypocrisy till he abandons it: when he is trusted he betrays his trust, when he talks he lies, when he makes a covenant he acts treacherously and when he quarrels he abuses.
Fornication will not appear among any people without their being punished by famine, and bribery will not appear among any people without their being punished by terror.
An unmarried man who commits fornication, should receive hundred lashes and be banished for a year.
A Muslim has five duties towards another Muslim; to return a salutation, visit the sick, follow funerals, accept an invitation and say 'God have mercy on you' when one sneezes.
What is Faith? When your good deed pleases you and your evil deed grieves you, you are a believer. What is Sin? When a thing disturbs (the peace of) your heart, give it up.
He who has in his heart as much faith as a grain of mustard seed will not enter hell, and he who has in his heart as much pride as a grain of mustard seed will not enter paradise.
God may forgive every sin, except in the case of one who dies a polytheist, or one who purposely kills a believer.
Avoid envy, for envy devours good deeds just as fire devours fuel.
God has created nothing on the face of the earth more dearer to Him than emancipation, and God has created nothing on the face of the earth more hateful to Him than divorce.
If any woman asks her husband for divorce without some strong reason, the odour of paradise will be forbidden for her.
A creature is not to be obeyed when it involves disobedience to the Creator.
What I have forbidden to you, avoid; what I have ordered you [to do], do as much of it as you can. It was only their excessive questioning and their disagreeing with their Prophets that destroyed those who were before you.
The strong man is not the good wrestler; the strong man is only the one who controls himself when he is angry.
Coarse talk does not come into anything without disgracing it, and modesty does not come into anything without adorning it.
If anyone claims what is not his, he does not belong to us, and let him come to his seat in hell.
Your smiling in your brother's face is charity; an exhortation of your fellow man to virtuous deeds is equal to almsgiving, your putting a wanderer in the right road is charity, your assisting the blind is charity; your removing stones and thorns and other obstructions from the road is charity; your giving water to the thirsty is charity.
None of you really has faith unless he desires for his neighbor what he desires for himself.
Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.
If I had but two loaves of bread, I would sell one and buy hyacinths, for they would feed my soul.
It is better for one of you to take a rope, bring a load of firewood on his back, and sell it, God thereby preserving his self respect, than that he should beg from people whether they give him anything or refuse him.
If anyone guarantees me that he will not beg from people, I will guarantee him paradise.
If you find anyone doing as Lot's people did, kill the one who does it and the one to whom it is done.
If anyone removes (one of the) anxieties of this world from a believer, God will remove (one of the) anxieties from him on the Day of Resurrection; if one smoothes the way for one who is destitute, God will smooth the way for him in this world and the next; and if anyone conceals the faults of a Muslim, God will conceal his faults in this world and the next. God helps a man as long as he helps his brother. If anyone pursues a path in search of knowledge God will thereby make easy for him a path to paradise.
When one of you becomes angry while standing, he should sit down. If the anger leaves him, well and good; otherwise he should lie down.
People will not sit remembering God without the angels surrounding them, mercy covering them, peace descending on them.
Our Lord! send amongst them an Apostle of their own, who shall rehearse Thy Signs to them and instruct them in scripture and wisdom, and sanctify them: For Thou art the Exalted in Might, the Wise.
Said the Prophet (peace be upon him): 'The most meritorious form of Almsgiving is the effort to help a poor man, made in secret, by one who is himself of little means.'
Do not consider any act of kindness insignificant, even meeting your brother with a cheerful face.
Act kindly towards women, for they were created from a rib and the most crooked part of the rib is its top. If you attempt to straighten it you will break it, if you leave it alone it will remain crooked: so act kindly towards women.
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