Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa [s]
4860 sayings · page 48 of 122
Do not consider any good deed as insignificant, and do not break it when you promise your brother (in faith).
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 474; Page No. 70 · permalink
Do not curse the dead, for it annoys the living.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 475; Page No. 70 · permalink
Do not curse the dead, for they have reached what they have sent ahead.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 476; Page No. 70 · permalink
Do not demand a penny from whom you have not offered a penny to.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 477; Page No. 70 · permalink
Do not divorce your wives unless you are suspicious about them, for God does not like men and women who marry a lot.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 478; Page No. 70 · permalink
Verily, truthfulness leads (man) to kindness and leads (him) to Paradise; and man tells the truth (to the extent that) he is reckoned truthful in the presence of God, but falsehood leads (man) to wickedness, and wickedness leads (him) to Fire (of Hell); and man tells lie (to the extent that) he is reckoned a liar in the presence of God.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2723. · permalink
Verily, venesection brings cure.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2724. · permalink
Verily, water is (ceremonially) clean and nothing can make it defiled.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2725. · permalink
Verily, wealth ruined your predecessors' health, and will (surely) cause you to melt.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2726. · permalink
Verily, what equals a traveler's provision is sufficient for you in this world.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2727. · permalink
Verily, whatever is destined (for man) in mother's wombs will come to pass.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2728. · permalink
Verily, when a servant (of God) commits a sin, a dark spot appears on his heart. If he abandons it, repents and asks God to forgive him, that darkness will be rubbed off his heart. But if he commits sins again, dark spots will increase in number to predominate his whole heart. And it is this predominance that the Exalted God mentions (in the Quran) when He says, "No indeed; but what they were earning has rusted upon their hearts."
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2729. · permalink
Verily, when God becomes enraged with a nation but He subjects them not to His punishment of metamorphosis or being swallowed by the earth, they will face high prices, drought and the rule of their wicked ones.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2730. · permalink
Verily, when God destines something for a creature, his destiny will not change.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2732. · permalink
Verily, when God makes the good of someone to be achieved by someone else, but the former shows no gratitude to the latter, he is actually not thankful to God.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2733. · permalink
Verily, when God wishes good for a people, He puts them to trial.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2734. · permalink
Verily, when God wishes something to be done, He deprives the wise of their wisdom.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2735. · permalink
Verily, When God wishes something to be done; He deprives men of their wisdom till His will get accomplished. Then, He gives their wisdom back to them, and regret follows.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2736. · permalink
Verily, when God wishes the fall of a servant, He makes him part with modesty and thus, he hates and is hated, thereby becoming bereft of trusteeship which makes him in turn to commit treachery and to be subjected to it as well, thereby turning out to be merciless which causes him to be stoned and damned and thus, freed from the yoke of Islam.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2737. · permalink
Verily, when God, the Exalted, offers his blessing to a servant, He would like to see its effect on him (her), and He detests pretended poverty. He dislikes bold beggars and loves chaste servants who keep aloof from the unlawful.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2738. · permalink
Verily, when people come across a tyrant and do not stop him from oppression, God will undoubtedly punish them all (for his tyranny).
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2739. · permalink
Verily, when sending down a disaster from the heavens on the people of the earth, the Exalted God excludes the founders (and developers) of mosques.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2740. · permalink
Verily, when the Exalted God created Mercy, He made it into a hundred parts, holding ninety-nine parts for Himself and bestowing the last part on all his creatures. Thus, were the unbelievers aware of the amount of Mercy kept with God, they would (never) be hopeless of (entering) Paradise, and were the believers aware of the extent of God's punishment, they would (never) feel immune of the Fire.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2741. · permalink
Verily the first thing that Allah created was the Pen, and then He commanded it and it wrote everything that is to be.
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 15115; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 232 · permalink
No sooner does a community differ [between themselves] after their own prophet, than the people of falsehood from amongst them become victorious over the people of truth.
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 929; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 243 · permalink
When people are miserly with their dinars and their dirhams [i.e. their wealth] and conclude bargains only upon sampling, and are too busy running after their livestock, and abandon fighting in the way of Allah (jihad), Allah brings down such disgrace upon them that can never be revoked until they turn back to their religion.
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 10504; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 247 · permalink
Verily the number of successors after me is as the number of chiefs of Moses.
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 14971; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 549 · permalink
Verily Allah, most High, created one hundred units of mercy on the day He created the heavens and the earth, each unit of which corresponds to all that is between the sky and the earth. Of these He descended one unit of mercy to the earth, and by virtue of that one unit, everything in creation shows understanding for one another, the mother is affectionate towards her child, and by virtue of the same unit, the birds and the beasts are able to drink water, and all creatures are able to subsist.
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 10464; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 249 · permalink
No one shall enter Paradise except by intervention of Allah's divine mercy.' His companions asked, 'Not even you?' to which he replied, 'Not even me, unless Allah encompasses me with His mercy.
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 10407; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 249 · permalink
If you knew the worth of Allah's mercy, you would rely solely on that.
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 10387; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 250 · permalink
Allah has not made permissible anything more abominable to Him than divorce.
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 27871; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 251 · permalink
When any of you sees a good dream, then go ahead and interpret it and inform others of it, and if you see a bad dream, then neither interpret it, nor inform others of it.
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 41392; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 257 · permalink
Allah despises the eloquent man who plays with his tongue like a drill.
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 7919; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 258 · permalink
Give the worker his wage before his sweat dries up, and inform him of his wage while he is still working.
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 9126; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 260 · permalink
Verily a man may carry out the actions of the people of Paradise for a long period of time, but end his life with the actions of the people of the Hellfire.
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 545; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 261 · permalink
Do not be amazed by [the good actions of] anyone until you see his end, for verily one may perform good actions for a period of his life that if he were to die during that time he would enter Paradise, but he subsequently changes and then commits evil actions.
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 589; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 261 · permalink
One who enjoins good should do so using good means.
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 5523; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 265 · permalink
Indeed fear of people must not prevent any of you from speaking the truth when he sees it fit to remind others of the grandeur of Allah, for neither will it [i.e. speaking the truth] hasten your destined end, nor will it ward off your decreed sustenance.
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 5570; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 266 · permalink
Faith is inner knowledge by means of the heart, attestation with the tongue and action with the limbs.
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 2; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 283 · permalink
Faith is patience and liberality.
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 57; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 284 · permalink
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