Hadith

Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa [s]

4860 sayings · page 39 of 122

1. O God! I take refuge in You from poverty, indigence and abjectness, and from being oppressed or being an oppressor.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1448; Page No. 205 · permalink

2. O God! I take refuge in You from the decline of Your blessings, the reversal of health, Your sudden wrath, and all the things which give rise to Your dissatisfaction.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1449; Page No. 205 · permalink

3. O God! I take refuge in You from the knowledge with no use, the action not accepted and the prayer not granted.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1450; Page No. 205 · permalink

4. O God! I take refuge in You from the seditions of women and the chastisement in grave.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1451; Page No. 205&206 · permalink

5. O God! I take refuge in You from useless knowledge, immodest heart, prayers unbranded and the unquenchable soul. O God! I take refuge in you from the evil of these four (things).

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1452; Page No. 206 · permalink

6. O God! I take refuge in You from vitiligo, insanity, leprosy and (all) bad diseases.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1453; Page No. 206 · permalink

7. Verily, he who is pleased with someone's manners and deeds is like unto him.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2496. · permalink

8. O God! I take refuge in You from weakness, laziness, fear, misery, old age, hard-heartedness, negligence and indigence, I take refuge in You from poverty, infidelity, debauchery, hypocrisy, conflict and dissimulation, and I take refuge in You from deafness, dumbness, madness, leprosy, vitiligo and (all) bad diseases.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1454; Page No. 206 · permalink

9. O God! I take refuge in You from weakness, laziness, fear, misery and old age, I take refuge in You from chastisement in the grave and punishment in Hell, and I take refuge in You from trials in life and in death.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1455; Page No. 206 · permalink

10. O God! improve my faith for it saves my affairs, improve my worldly life for in it my sustenance lies and improve my eternal life for towards it is my return's God! conjoin my life with increase of the good, and my death with relief from all evils.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1456; Page No. 206&207 · permalink

11. O God! Leave me not on my own for a twinkling of an eye, and deprive me not of the best of Your gifts.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1457; Page No. 207 · permalink

12. O God! Make me benefit from what You have taught me, teach me what is of benefit to me and increase my knowledge.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1460; Page No. 207 · permalink

13. O God! make me fear You (in such a way) as if you were in my view's God! grant me felicity through piety and spare me adversity due to disobeying Thee. O God! determine for me your (good) destiny and bless me with your decree, so that I would not like to ask you for a change in what you have put first or last. O God! enrich my soul.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1461; Page No. 207 · permalink

14. O God! make me live a poor life, die a poor man and associate with the poor in the Hereafter. The most wretched of all the wretched is the one who conjoins worldly poverty with otherworldly punishment.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1462; Page No. 208 · permalink

15. O God! make me thankful, patient, insignificant in my own sight and great in people's.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1463; Page No. 208 · permalink

16. O God! place me among those who feel happy when doing good and seek forgiveness when doing wrong.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1464; Page No. 208 · permalink

17. O God! Provide us with such a fear (of You) that saves us from disobedience to You, such an obedience (of You) that entitles us to Paradise, and such a certainty that renders worldly disasters easy for us.(O God!) make us avail ourselves from our ears, eyes and power as long as You keep us alive and to the last moment of our life, avenge those who oppressed us, give us victory over our enemies, let not our calamities be those of our faith and our greatest sorrows be for worldly affairs, let not our knowledge end in materiality and the merciless our rulers be.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1465; Page No. 208 · permalink

18. Treating people moderately is charity.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2343. · permalink

19. Treating people moderately is half of (one's) faith, and being lenient to them is half of (one's) pleasure.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2344. · permalink

20. Troubles, diseases and griefs are this world's punishments.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2345. · permalink

21. True faith lies in advice.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2346. · permalink

22. Truth of the tongue leads to truth of the heart and that, in turn, leads to truth of one's faith.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2347. · permalink

23. Truthfulness is a heavenly act. When a man tells the truth, he is led to do good which will (in turn) lead him to safety, and this will lead him to Paradise. Telling lie (on the contrary) is a hellish act. When a man tells lie, he is led to wrongdoing, which will (in turn) lead him to disbelief, and this will direct him to Hell.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2348. · permalink

24. Truthfulness is peace; lying is anxiety.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2349. · permalink

25. Try to be kind, for a kind person wants people to be at good and in abundance.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2350. · permalink

26. When God wishes good for someone, He guides people towards him for their needs.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2820. · permalink

27. When God wishes good for someone, He makes the grateful avail his good deeds, and when He wishes evil for someone, He makes the ungrateful avail his good deeds.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2821. · permalink

28. Verily, Satan loves red color, and thus (you should) avoid it and avoid any dress, which makes you pretentious.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2561. · permalink

29. Verily, Satan possesses (variegated) snares and traps which include being proud of the Exalted God's blessings, glorifying oneself for God's bounties, snubbing God's servants and following passions in matters not divine.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2562. · permalink

30. Verily, Satan said, "O Lord, I swear by your Glory that I will not fail to seduce your creatures as long as their souls run in their bodies", and the Lord said, "By my Glory and Greatness that I will not fail to forgive them as long as they seek My Forgiveness.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2563. · permalink

31. Verily, Satan sends his strongest and most steadfast servants to deviate a man who performs good deeds through wealth.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2564. · permalink

32. Verily, the best business is that of those merchants who do not tell lie when they speak, who do not betray trusteeships, who do not break their promises, who do not practice any procrastination in paying back their debts, who do not practice severity in demanding their claims, who do not exaggerate as to the quality of the goods they want to sell, and who do not underestimate the quality of the merchandise they want to buy.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2575. · permalink

33. Verily, the best merit (for a man) is good-temperedness.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2576. · permalink

34. Verily, the best servants of God are the keepers of promise and the users of perfume.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2577. · permalink

35. Verily, the cause of pride, which the seekers of the world, follow (in life), is wealth.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2578. · permalink

36. Verily, the dead can recognize those who carry him (her), those who perform his (her) ceremonial wash and those who bury him (her).

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2579. · permalink

37. When a sin is kept hidden, it hurts nobody but the sinner, and when it is unfolded and uncontrolled, it hurts everybody.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2796. · permalink

38. When a woman says to her husband, "You did not do me any good", her good deeds fade away.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2797. · permalink

39. When a woman sleeps the whole night away from her husband's bed, the angels curse her to the break of dawn.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2798. · permalink

40. When an inexpert person is made responsible of doing something, bad results are to be awaited.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2799. · permalink

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