Hadith

Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa [s]

4860 sayings · page 40 of 122

1. When anyone of you consults with his brother (in faith), the latter should offer him benevolent consultation.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2800. · permalink

2. When anyone of you happens to lead the congregational prayer, he should set it as short as possible, for there might be children and aged, weak and sick or preoccupied people among the participants, and when anyone sets his own prayer individually, he can prolong it as he wishes.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2801. · permalink

3. When anyone of you hires somebody, he should tell him how much his wage is.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2802. · permalink

4. When anyone of you is engaged in passing judgment among Muslims, he must avoid judging in anger and refrain from discrimination as to watching and pointing to the sides of quarrels, and as to their place of sitting (in the court).

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2803. · permalink

5. When aroused by jealousy, keep away from tyranny, when fallen into suspicion, put it not into action, and when something you weigh, on it an extra amount lay.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2804. · permalink

6. When comes the end of Time, death culls out the good among my people just as you handpick the best of date.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2805. · permalink

7. When death makes of the learned a prey, as a martyr s(he) passes away.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2806. · permalink

8. When doing something bad, do good (immediately), for good deeds make evil deeds vanish.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2807. · permalink

9. When faced with severe hunger, take in a loaf of bread and a sip of water, and forget about the rest which the world contains.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2808. · permalink

10. When God bestows a blessing on someone, and he praises God for it, his praise is better than that blessing though the latter might be greater in quantity.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2809. · permalink

11. When God comes to know about a servant's regret for his sins, He pardons him prior to his request for forgiveness.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2810. · permalink

12. When God covers up someone's sins in this world, He will not berate him for them in the Day of Judgment.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2811. · permalink

13. When God fills one's heart with the desire to marry a woman, he is allowed to have a glance at her.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2812. · permalink

14. When God grants anyone of you much (lawfully-earned) wealth, s(he) should give priority to himself and his household in spending it.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2813. · permalink

15. When God wills good for a people, He lengthens their lives and inspires gratitude (of Himself) in them.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2814. · permalink

16. When God wishes good for a family, He grants them wisdom in religion, respect of the younger for the elder, moderateness in living and temperance in spending and (in addition), He mirrors their faults to them to make them refrain from them, and when God wishes for a family other than these, He leaves them on their own.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2815. · permalink

17. When God wishes good for a person, He grants him/her deep thought in religion.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2816. · permalink

18. When God wishes good for his servant, He gives him punishment (for his wrongdoings) in this very world, and when He wills evil for him, He leaves off his sins to be punished in the Hereafter.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2817. · permalink

19. When God wishes good for somebody, He makes him suffer a calamity.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2818. · permalink

20. When God wishes good for someone, He grants him a deep understanding of religion, makes him heedless of the world, and discloses his defects for him.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2819. · permalink

21. When God wishes good for someone, He sets up needlessness in his soul, piety in his heart, and when the reverse He wishes, He makes poverty maneuver in his sight.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2822. · permalink

22. How nice for those of my people who brush their teeth before or after eating and when making ablution.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 930; Page No. 131 · permalink

23. How nice is a gift at the time of need!

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 931; Page No. 131 · permalink

24. How nice is it to be moderate in affluence, in poverty and in worshiping (God)!

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 932; Page No. 131 · permalink

25. How nice it is for man to take up abode in privacy once in a while, look back on his sins and ask God for forgiveness!

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 934; Page No. 131 · permalink

26. How nice weapons are patience and prayer for a believer!

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 935; Page No. 131 · permalink

27. Humility adds nothing to God's servants but dignity. Be humble, therefore, and God will grant you dignity. Forgiveness adds nothing to God's servants but glory. Forgive, therefore, and God will make you glorified. Charity causes increase in one's wealth. Give charity, therefore, and God will bestow (His) Mercy on you.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 936; Page No. 131&132 · permalink

28. Hurting a Muslim is hurting me and hurting me is hurting God.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 937; Page No. 132 · permalink

29. Husbands have the greatest claims on wives, and mothers on their children.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 938; Page No. 132 · permalink

30. I advise you (to be careful) about your neighbors.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 939; Page No. 133 · permalink

31. I advise you to be as modest to God as you are to a chaste man of your clan.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 940; Page No. 133 · permalink

32. I advise you to fear the Exalted God in public and in privacy, to do good after doing evil, to ask nothing from people, to hold nothing on trust and to avoid judging between two persons.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 941; Page No. 133 · permalink

33. I am a warner, death is a plunderer and Resurrection, a meeting place.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 942; Page No. 133 · permalink

34. I am anxious about three things to happen to my people after my death: deviated carnal desires, unbounded sexuality and gluttony, and negligence after knowledge.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 943; Page No. 133 · permalink

35. I am mostly worried about my nation of carnal desires and unfulfilled wishes.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 944; Page No. 133&134 · permalink

36. I am mostly worried about my nation, of glib-tongued hypocrites.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 945; Page No. 134 · permalink

37. I am not worried about my people (concerning anything), save weak faith.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 946; Page No. 134 · permalink

38. I am not worried about my people as to villains who may kill them or foes who may cause them to annihilate, but as to misleading leaders who will kill them in case of disobedience and impose on them seditions in case of obedience.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 947; Page No. 134 · permalink

39. I am not worried about my people concerning any trials, save wine and women.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 948; Page No. 134 · permalink

40. I am not worried about your poverty but only about taking pride in your excessive wealth, nor am I worried about your wrongdoings but only about intentional ones.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 949; Page No. 134 · permalink

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