Fear Allah wherever you are and follow up a bad deed with a good one as it
will wipe it out and behave well towards people. (Related by at-Tabari according
to Abu Dharr).
Fear Allah and treat your children equally. (Related by an-Nu’an).
Beware of the invocation of the oppressed as there is no barrier between it and
Allah. (Related by at-Tirmithi).
Beware of oppression, for it will turn into darkness on the Day of Resurrection.
And beware of miserliness for it ruined those who preceded you as it led them to
bloodshed as well as be cautious in treating lawfully the forbidden acts.
(Related Imam Ahmad according to Abu Huraira)
To talk about Allah’s blessing is an expression of gratitude, and not doing so
is an act of disbelief. The one who is not thankful for the few blessings will
not be thankful for the many. And the one who is not thankful to the people will
not be thankful to Allah. Unity is a blessing and division is a punishment.
(Related by al-Bayhaqi).
A hypocrite has three distinguishing signs, when he talks he lies, when he
promises he breaks it and when he is entrusted with something, he betrays such
trust. (Related by the two Sheiks according to Abu Huraira).
Avoid the seven great destructive sins. These are to join partners in worship
with Allah, to practice sorcery, to kill without justification a living being
whose life has been declared sacred by Allah, to practice usury, to
misappropriate the property of an orphan, to flee from the battlefield at the
time of fighting and to slander chaste and innocent believing women. (Related by
the two Sheikhs).
Allah likes most perpetual deeds however minimal. (Related by the two Sheiks
according to ‘Aisha).
Wish for others what you wish for yourself. (Related by al-Bukhari).
Allah Most High loves a servant of His who is lenient when he sells, lenient
when he buys, lenient when he pays his debt and lenient when he demands the
payment of a debt due to him. (Related by al-Bayhaqi according to Abu Huraira).
Whenever you go to bed, perform your ablution the way you do it for prayer, then
lie down on your right side and say “O Allah! I have surrendered my fate to You,
I have entrusted all my affairs to You and I have depended on You. There is no
refuge and no asylum from You except with You. O Allah! I believe in Your Book
which You have revealed and in Your Prophet whom You have sent." (Related by
al-Bukhari and Muslim).
When one of you suffers a calamity, he should say, “To Allah we belong and to
Him we shall return. O Allah, I seek reward from you for my affliction, so
compensate me for it and grant me something better than that as its substitute”.
(Related by Ibn Majah according to Umm Salama).
When any of you starts eating, let him mention the name of Allah Most High. If
he forgot to do so at the beginning of the meal, when he remembers, he should
say, “In the name of Allah at its beginning and at its end.”
When any of you leads the people in prayer, he should shorten it, for among them
are the young, the old, the weak, the sick, and the one preoccupied with his
affairs. But when he prays alone, he may prolong his prayer as much as he
wishes. (Related by at-Tirmithi according to Abu Huraira).
When a woman gives in charity from her husband’s house, reasonably and without
waste, she receives the reward of what she has spent and her husband receives
his reward for having earned it and the storekeeper will have a similar reward.
The reward of one does not decrease those of the others. (Related by the Two
Sheiks).
When one of you enters a mosque, let him pray two rak’ats before sitting.
(Related by the Group).
When one of you gets invited to a wedding banquet, he should accept the
invitation. (Related by the al-Bukhari and Muslim).
When one of you sees a pleasant dream, then it is from Allah, and he should
thank Allah for it and tell it to others. But when he sees something else (an
unpleasant dream) which he dislikes, then it is from Satan and he should seek
refuge with Allah from its evil and should not mention it to anyone, for then it
would not harm him. (Related by al-Bukhari according to Abu Sa’id).
When one of you sees a bad dream, he should spit thrice towards his left then
seek refuge with Allah from Satan three times. He should then turn over to the
side other than the one he was lying on. (Related by Muslim according to Jaber)
The woman who renders her five daily prayers, fasts her month of Ramadan, guards
her chastity and obeys her husband, enters Paradise. (Related by al-Bazza
according to Anas)
When the trust is betrayed, wait for the Hour of Judgement. The questioner
asked: “O Messenger of Allah, how is the trust betrayed? He said, “When
authority is entrusted to those unworthy of it, then wait for the Hour."
(Related by al-Bukhari)
When one of you beats someone, let him avoid the face. (Related by al-Bukhari).
When one of you sneezes, he should say, “Alhamdullillah Rabbi-il-‘Aalameen”
(Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds). And whoever muslim brother or
companion is with him at such a time should reply to him, “Yarhamuka-Allah” (may
Allah bestow His mercy on you). When the latter says, “Yarhamuka-Allah”, the
former should respond by saying, “Yahdeekumu-Allah wa yuslihu balakum” (May
Allah give you guidance and improve your condition). (Related by Abu Daoud and
an-Nassai)
When the son of Adam recites the Sura of Sajda (prostration) then prostrates,
Satan steps aside crying and saying, “Woe to him (satan), the son of Adam was
ordered to prostrate and he did and will therefore enter Paradise. And I was
ordered, I disobeyed and I will enter the Fire (of Hell)”. (Related by Muslim
according to Abu Huraira).
When the prayer has started, do not rush for it, but come to it walking calmly.
Join in the prayer at the stage at which you arrived and complete afterwards
whatever you have missed. (Related by al-Bukhari and Muslim).
When the child of a servant of Allah dies, Allah most High asks His angels:
“Have you taken the soul of my servant’s child?” “Yes”, they reply. Allah will
say, what did my servant say? The angels answer: He praised You and said: To
Allah we belong and to Him we shall return.” On this, Allah Most High will say:
“Build for My servant a house in Paradise and name it the house of Praising
(Allah).” (Related by at-Tirmithi according to Abu Musa).
When a person dies, all his deeds cease except for these three: Perpetual
charity, a beneficial knowledge, and a child who invokes Allah for him. (Related
by Muslim).
When any of you sees someone who is superior to him in riches and beauty, then
he should look at another one who is inferior to him. (Related by the two
Sheikhs according to Abu Huraira).
When one of you intends to do something, he should offer a two Rak’at prayer
(Nafl), other than the compulsory prayers and after finishing it, he should say:
“O Allah! I consult Your infinite knowledge, and appeal to Your infinite power,
and ask You to favor me with Your great compassion, for You have power and I
have none, and You have knowledge and I have none. And You are Knower of the
unseen. O Allah! If You know that this matter is good for me as regards my
religion, my subsistence and my future life (in the Hereafter), then fulfill it
for me and make it easy for me and then bestow Your blessings on me in that
matter. But, if You know that this matter is not good for me as regards my
Religion, my subsistence and my future life, then divert it away from me. And
keep me away from it and destine for me what is good wherever it may be, and let
me be contented with it." He said, then he should mention his need or concern.
(Related by al-Bukhari).
Talk about the good deeds of your dead and refrain from citing their bad deeds.
(Related by at-Tirmithi according to Ibn ‘Omar).
Performing ablution perfectly constitutes one half of faith. “Praise be to
Allah” fills the scale, Glorification (of Allah) and Takbir (saying Allah is
most High) fill the heavens and the earth. Prayer is light, obligatory charity
is proof (of faith), patience is brightness, and the Qur’an is an argument for
or against you. And eve morning, each person goes to selling his soul, selling
it (to Allah or to Satan) so he will either set it free or will enslave it.
(Related by Ibn habban according to Abu Malek al-Ash’ari)
Treat women kindly, for a woman is created from a rib and the most curved
portion of the rib is its upper part. So if you try to straighten it, you will
break it. But if you leave it as it is, it will remain curved. So treat women
kindly. (Related by the two Sheikhs according to Abu Huraira).
The people most prone to trials with afflictions are the prophets and then the
most pious and then the next in piety and so on. A man is tried according to the
strength of his belief. If his belief is firm, his trial will be harder, and if
his belief is weak, he is tried accordingly. A servant of Allah will go on being
tried with afflictions until he walks on earth free of sins. (Related by
al-Bukhari according to Sa’id).
Utter good words, spread the greeting of peace, be kind to your blood relations
and pray at night while others sleep then enter Paradise in peace.
Take advantage of five things before five others happen. These are your life
before your death, your health before your illness, your leisure before
pre-occupation, your youth before your old age, and your wealth before your
poverty. (Related by al-Bayhaqi according to Ibn ‘Abbas).
The best Muslim among the believers is the one who does not harm the Muslims
with either his tongue or his hand. The one with best belief among the believers
is the one who has the best characters. The Muhajir (emigrant) is the one who
abandons all that Allah has forbidden. And the best jihad (struggle for the sake
of Allah) is to struggle against oneself for the sake of gaining the pleasure of
Allah, to whom belongs might and majesty.
The biggest of the major sins are: to join others in worship with Allah, to kill
someone (unlawfully), to be undutiful to one’s parents, and to bear false
witness. (Related by al-Bukhari).
Allah! I seek refuge with You from helplessness, laziness, cowardice,
miserliness, and feeble old age. I seek refuge with You from the torture of the
grave. I seek refuge with You from the punishment of the Fire (of Hell) and I
seek refuge with You from the trial of life and death. (Related by al-Bukhari).
Allah! Forgive my sins, my ignorance and my exceeding the boundaries or
righteousness, and forgive those of my sins which You know better than I, O
Allah! Forgive those of my sins of the past and those which I have committed
thereafter, the ones I committed openly and those I committed secretly; You are
the One who makes the things go before, and You are the One Who delays them, and
You are the Omnipotent. (Related by al-Bukhari).
Allah! Set right for me my religion which is the safeguard of my affairs, set
right for me my life in this world where I earn my livelihood, set right for me
my life in the Hereafter where I have to return ultimately, make life for me a
source of abundance for every virtue and make my death a source of comfort
against all evils. (Related by Muslim according to Abu Huraira).
Allah Most High has chosen this religion and the only things fitting for your
religion are generosity and a good character. If such is true, then try to adorn
your religion with these two. (Related by At-Tabarani accoridng to ‘Umran Ibn
Hussayn).
Allah Most High will ask each guardian about his charge. Did he guard or waste
this trust? A man will even be asked about his family.
Allah Most High has no better reward than Paradise for believing servants of His
who is patient and resigned when He takes away his most beloved in this world.
(Related by an-Nassai according to Ibn ‘Omar).
On the Day of Resurrection, the man who, in the sight of Allah, occupies the
worst position is the one who after having had intercourse with his wife, goes
out and makes public her secret.
Allah loves that one should be kind and lenient in all matters.
Allah had forbidden you to be undutiful to your mothers, to bury your female
infants alive, parsimony and usurpation of the property of others. And he
disapproved for you three things: vain talk and gossip, excessive questioning
and wasting wealth. (Related by al-Bukhari and Muslim according to al-Maghira
Ibn Shu’ba).
Allah Most High says: I am the third of two partners as long as they do not
betray each other, for if one of them betrayed the other, I withdraw from their
partnership. (Related by Abu Dawood according to Abu Huraira).
Allah Most High has forbidden the Fire (of Hell) on those who testify that there
is no God but Allah, seeking thereby only Allah’s pleasure. (Related by
al-Bukhari and Muslim).
On the Day of Resurrection, Allah Most High says: “Where are those who love each
other for the sake of My Majesty, today I shall provide them with My shade which
is the day when there is no shade but Mine. (Related by Muslim according to Abu
Huraira).
Allah will say to the people of Paradise: “O People of Paradise! They will
respond: “Here we are, Our Lord, and all the good is in Your Hands.” Allah will
say: “Are you satisfied? They will answer: “Why shouldn’t we be satisfied when
You have bestowed on us what You have bestowed on any of Your other creation.”
He will say “Shall I not bestow upon you something even better than that? They
will say: “O Our Lord! What could be better than that? Allah will say: “I bestow
upon you My pleasure and I shall never hereafter be angry with you.” (Related by
the two Sheikhs according to Abu Sa’id).
