Hadith

Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa [s]

4860 sayings · page 30 of 122

1. If you could see death and its course, worldly desire and its happiness would turn worthless for you.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1019; Page No. 143 · permalink

2. If you didn't commit sins, God would create a people who would do so in order to be forgiven and thus sent to Paradise.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1020; Page No. 144 · permalink

3. If you didn't commit sins, I would be worried about you as to something worse self-conceit self-conceit.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1021; Page No. 144 · permalink

4. If you expect your children to treat you equitably in beneficence and affection, treat them equally in generosity.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1022; Page No. 144 · permalink

5. If you have at your disposal what suffices you, refrain from seeking what makes of you a rebel.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1023; Page No. 144 · permalink

6. If you have four things, do not regret for the worldly things you have not: truthfulness, trusteeship, good manners, and abstaining from the unlawful in what you eat.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1024; Page No. 144 · permalink

7. If you knew about the extent of God's mercy, you would rely on it.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1025; Page No. 144 · permalink

8. If you knew about the saved things for you, you would not feel sad for what you lack now.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1026; Page No. 144 · permalink

9. If you knew what I know about the world, you would feel safe against its sorrows.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1027; Page No. 144 · permalink

10. If you knew what I know, you would laugh less and weep more, with food and drink being distasteful to you.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1028; Page No. 144&145 · permalink

11. If you knew what I know, you would laugh less and weep more.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1029; Page No. 145 · permalink

12. If you knew what I know, you would weep more and laugh less and climb to high places to entreat to God, being fearful about your (eternal) safety or ruin.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1030; Page No. 145 · permalink

13. If you knew what I know, you would weep more and laugh less, for discord will come to pass, honesty will disappear, trust will be eliminated, honest men will be charged (of dishonesty), the treacherous will be regarded honest, and seditions will overcome you just as dark nights do.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1031; Page No. 145 · permalink

14. If you knew what was behind questioning, nobody would ever make a request to anybody else.

    Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 1032, Page No. 145 · permalink

15. If you knew what would befall you after death, you would have no appetite to eat, would never drink tastefully, would never enter a house to take rest, but would (instead) climb to summits hurting your hearts and bewailing your souls.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1033; Page No. 145 · permalink

16. If you knew what you have with God, you would like to fall into more poverty and need.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1034; Page No. 145&146 · permalink

17. If you look (deeply) at death and its course, you would hate worldly longing and its joys.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1035; Page No. 146 · permalink

18. If you pour the water (semen), which is destined to be a child, on a piece of stone, the Exalted God will bring a child out of it, for He will surely create whoever is to be created.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1036; Page No. 146 · permalink

19. If you seek the love of God and that of the Prophet, return the things given to you in trust, be honest in speaking and treat your neighbors well.

    Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 1037, Page No. 146 · permalink

20. If you were afraid of the Exalted God, as you should, you would acquire knowledge untainted by ignorance; and if you knew the Exalted God, as He deserves, mountains would be shaken at your command.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1038; Page No. 146 · permalink

21. If you wish to be a favorite to God, dislike the (material) world, and if you wish to be a favorite to people, offer them your excess.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1039; Page No. 146 · permalink

22. Struggle against polytheists through your wealth and souls and words.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1796; Page No. 254 · permalink

23. Struggle against your passions to gain control over your souls.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1797; Page No. 254 · permalink

24. Struggling in the way of God is the nearest of all deeds to Him, and nothing is equal to it.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1798; Page No. 254 · permalink

25. Stupidity is inauspicious and moderateness is auspicious (in nature).

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1799; Page No. 254 · permalink

26. Suffice it for death to admonish and for certainty to make man needless.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1800; Page No. 254 · permalink

27. Suffice it for death to decline your love for the world and to incline you towards eternity.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1801; Page No. 254 · permalink

28. Suffice it for time to advise and for death to separate.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1802; Page No. 254 · permalink

29. Support your affairs through secrecy, for all holders of blessings are subject to others' jealousy.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1803; Page No. 254&255 · permalink

30. Suppose you have given a Dinar in the way of God, another to free a slave, another in charity to the poor, and still another to settle the needs of your household. The last one is worthy of more reward than others.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1804; Page No. 255 · permalink

31. Surprised am I of the negligent who is not to be neglected, and of the seeker of the (material) world who is sought by death, and of the one who laughs boisterously but knows not weather God is pleased or displeased with him\her.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1805; Page No. 255 · permalink

32. Suspend the punishment of merciful people, unless they are condemned to divinely-ordered penalties.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1806; Page No. 255 · permalink

33. Suspicion is far-sightedness.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1807; Page No. 255 · permalink

34. Sustenance reaches a generous family faster than a knife hits a camel's hump.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1808; Page No. 255 · permalink

35. Sustenance seeks God's servants more than their death.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1809; Page No. 255 · permalink

36. Take refuge in God from poverty and being encumbered by a large family, and from doing injustice or being oppressed.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1816; Page No. 256 · permalink

37. Take refuge in God from the evil of (your) permanent neighbor, for a passing neighbor will part with you when s(he) wishes.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1817; Page No. 256 · permalink

38. Take refuge in God from the following destructive three: a bad neighbor who covers your good and spreads out your evil, a bad wife who is foul-mouthed in your presence and treacherous in your absence, and a bad leader who ignores your good deeds and does not forgive your wrong doings.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1818; Page No. 256&257 · permalink

39. Taking a rope and carrying fire-wood on your back is easier than making a request to a man, whom God has given something out of His Mercy, being him generous or not.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1819; Page No. 257 · permalink

40. Taking one's ropes, going to mountains, and collecting bushes to sell for food and for giving charity is better for any one of you than making request to people.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1820; Page No. 257 · permalink

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