Hadith

Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa [s]

4860 sayings · page 24 of 122

1. The doers of the following five will suffer immediate heavenly punishment: oppression, breach of promise, mistreatment of parents, disconnection of bonds of kinship and ungratefulness.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1963; Page No. 274 · permalink

2. The doors of heavens open at the time of prayers as well as the time of preparation fight in way of God, and at these two times the supplications of those who pray are less likely to be rejected.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1964; Page No. 274 · permalink

3. The doors of heavens open on four occasions, and prayers are granted: when warriors in the way of God join hands, when it rains, at times of prayer, and on visiting Kasbah.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1965; Page No. 274 · permalink

4. The doors of heavens open on Mondays and Thursdays and all servants of God are forgiven, save those who are hostile to their brethren.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1966; Page No. 275 · permalink

5. The double-faced and the double-tongued are both damned.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1967; Page No. 275 · permalink

6. The double-faced in the world will suffer double-flamed fire in the Hereafter.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1968; Page No. 275 · permalink

7. The double-faced will not enjoy respect.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1969; Page No. 275 · permalink

8. The earth is God's and the people are His servants. So, settle in the land where good you find.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1970; Page No. 275 · permalink

9. The earth is God's earth, and the people are God's servants. Whoever enlivens (cultivates) a dead (barren) piece of the earth will be its owner.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1971; Page No. 275 · permalink

10. The earth will be filled with inequity. Then, a man will rise from my household to fill it with equity just as it was filled with injustice and enormity.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1972; Page No. 275 · permalink

11. The earth will be filled with inequity. Then, God will appoint a man to fill it with equity just as it was filled with injustice and enormity- a man whose name and whose father's are respectively mine and my father's.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1973; Page No. 275&276 · permalink

12. The easiest pressures of death are like unto a hundred strokes of sword.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1974; Page No. 276 · permalink

13. The Exalted God has appointed no prophet with a language other than that of his people.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1975; Page No. 276 · permalink

14. The Exalted God has created three classes of jinn. Snakes, scorpions and insects comprise the first class. The second class is like unto wind in the air, and the third are those who will suffer reckoning and retribution. He has also created three classes of human being. The first class are like unto beasts of burden. The second class has human bodies but devilish spirits, and the third will enjoy the shade (patronage) of God the day when no shade but His exists.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1976; Page No. 276 · permalink

15. The Exalted God has prescribed His creatures' fate fifty thousand years prior to the creation of heavens and the earth, when His Throne was on water.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1977; Page No. 276 · permalink

16. Praying for oneself is the best (kind of) praying.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1591; Page No. 225 · permalink

17. The Exalted God postpones to the Day of Judgment the punishment of the sins He wishes, saves the sin of displeasing one's parents, which He hastens to recompense in this very world before the sinner's death.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1978; Page No. 276 · permalink

18. The Exalted God says: By my Glory and Honor I swear that I do not grant a servant two states of security together with two states of fear, i.e. if he feels secure from Me in this world, I will frighten him in the Resurrection and if he is afraid of Me in this world, I will secure him in the Resurrection.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1979; Page No. 277 · permalink

19. The Exalted God says: Grandeur is My prerogative and I will demolish anybody who tries to claim it as his own.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1980; Page No. 277 · permalink

20. The Exalted God says: I am a company to My servant's thinking about Me- being it good, I will benefit him and being it bad, I will bring him loss.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1981; Page No. 277 · permalink

21. The Exalted God says: I am the most needless of all partners when people take partners with Me, and so when someone takes a partner with Me in an act of worship, I leave him on his own with his polytheism.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1982; Page No. 277 · permalink

22. The Exalted God says: I will be cross at anybody who does not pray to Me.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1983; Page No. 277 · permalink

23. The Exalted God says: I will forgive the one who believes in My power of forgiving sins, and nothing matters so long as (s)he takes nothing as a partner with Me.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1984; Page No. 277 · permalink

24. Refrain from liars, for they are mirage in resemblance, drawing near you what's far in distance and brining what is remote to your presence.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1634; Page No. 232 · permalink

25. Refrain from lust, for it makes man blind and deaf.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1635; Page No. 232 · permalink

26. Refrain from minor sins, for God will call you to account for them.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1636; Page No. 232 · permalink

27. Refrain from minor sins, for they are like unto a group of people landing in valley, each gathering little pieces of wood which might finally make a huge heap for baking bread. Minor sins, too, will (finally) be so great to cause one's ruin when s(he) is called to account.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1637; Page No. 232 · permalink

28. Refrain from misery, for it led to the ruin of predecessors and caused them to shed the blood of one another and to consider the unlawful as lawful.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1638; Page No. 232 · permalink

29. Refrain from obstinacy, for it begins with ignorance and ends in repentance.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1639; Page No. 232 · permalink

30. Refrain from polytheism and telling lie.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1640; Page No. 233 · permalink

31. Refrain from red color, for it is the most favorite ornament to Satan.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1641; Page No. 233 · permalink

32. Refrain from slackness, for you live for today, not for tomorrow. Should there be a tomorrow, pass it as you do today, and should there be no tomorrow, you will not regret today's slackness.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1642; Page No. 233 · permalink

33. Refrain from vanity, for it induced Satan to avoid prostrating to Adam. Refrain from greed, for it made Adam eat the fruit of the (forbidden) tree. Refrain from jealousy, for it caused Cain to kill Abel. Verily, these are the origins of all vices.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1651; Page No. 234 · permalink

34. Refrain from whatever makes you drunk.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1652; Page No. 234 · permalink

35. Refrain from whatever sounds bad for (your) ears.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1653; Page No. 234 · permalink

36. Refrain from whatever you have to pardon for

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1654; Page No. 235 · permalink

37. Refrain from wine, for its sin gives birth to (other) sins, just as its tree gives birth to new vines.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1655; Page No. 235 · permalink

38. Release Muslims, from their trouble and let Your good deeds increase.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1656; Page No. 235 · permalink

39. Reliance on man in worldly and otherworldly affairs suffices to show his prosperity.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1657; Page No. 235 · permalink

40. Religion (faith) starts with abstinence.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1658; Page No. 235 · permalink

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