Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa [s]
4860 sayings · page 6 of 122
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Verily, the Exalted God has appointed some of His servants to settle people's needs, to whom people resort for their requirements. These servants are safe against God's punishment.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2606. · permalink
Whoever deceives us does not belong to us.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2937. · permalink
The son of Adam has an unavoidable share in adultery. Looking lustfully, listening to evil talks, uttering bad words, encroaching upon people's property, walking in unlawful ways, having carnal desires and wants, and acting upon such desires while denying it are respectively the adultery of his eyes, ears, tongue, hands, feet, heart and privy parts.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2174. · permalink
The son of Adam hates two things: death which is better for him than sedition, and shortage of wealth which entails easier reckoning (in the Hereafter).
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2175. · permalink
The son of Adam reaches old age but two of his traits grow young: greed for wealth and greed for life.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2176. · permalink
The son of Adam reaches old age with two things staying with him: avarice and ambition.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2177. · permalink
The statement, "I will take all my right and will not leave any part of it to anybody", suffices to show one's stinginess.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2178. · permalink
The steadfast pillars of Islam will collapse one by one. Whenever one collapses, people will hang onto another, with God's commands being the first and prayers being the last to collapse.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2179. · permalink
The story of the world and me is like unto a horseman who sleeps under the shade of a tree in a hot day, then sets out and leaves there.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2180. · permalink
The superiority of a learned man over a (simple) worshipper is (to the extent of) seventy degrees, with the distance between each two degrees as far as heavens from the earth.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2181. · permalink
The superiority of a learned man over a (simple) worshipper is like unto that of the full moon over other stars.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2182. · permalink
The superiority of a learned man over a simple worshipper is like unto mine over my people.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2183. · permalink
The superiority of a learned man over an ordinary one is like unto that of a prophet over his people.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2184. · permalink
The superiority of the learned over (simple) worshippers is like unto mine over the lowest among you (in rank). Verily, the Greatest and the most Powerful God, His angels, the dwellers of heavens and the earth, and even ants in their holes as well as fish, all pray for the one who teaches people the ways to goodness.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2185. · permalink
The superiority of the pious youth who have started worshipping God from early childhood over the aged who have done so only after old age is like unto that of the prophets over ordinary men.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2186. · permalink
The testimony of a Bedouin concerning a city dweller is not valid.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2187. · permalink
The thankless to people are thankless to God.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2188. · permalink
The treasures of good and evil are with God, and its keys are men. So, blessed is the one whom God has made the key to good and the lock for evil, and woe is the one whom God has made the key to evil and the lock for good.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2189. · permalink
The weakest of all people is the one who is incapable of performing worldly tasks, and the most stingy of all is he who hesitates to greet others.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2196. · permalink
The wicked have been created wicked in their mothers' wombs.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2197. · permalink
The wicked will not attain the status of the pious, just as thorns do not fruit grape. Thus, go whatever way you wish, for you will(finally) arrive at the rovers of the way you choose.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2198. · permalink
The wise are saved.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2199. · permalink
The wise tolerate the ignorant, forgive the cruel, show humility to inferiors and supersede superiors in doing good. They meditate before saying something-being it good, they express and enjoy it, and being it evil, they keep quiet and remain safe thereof.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2200. · permalink
Nothing is more favorable to God than a sip of anger or a sip of patience one drinks, and no drop is more favorable to God than a drop of tear dripped out of fear of God or a drop of blood shed for the cause of Him.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1418; Page No. 200&201 · permalink
Nothing is more favorable to the Exalted God than a sip of anger one drinks, and He will load with faith the heart of whoever does so.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1419; Page No. 201 · permalink
Nothing is worthier than a believer to the Exalted God.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1420; Page No. 201 · permalink
Nothing is worthier to God than praying Him.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1421; Page No. 201 · permalink
Nothing ruins Islam as much as miserliness.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1422; Page No. 201 · permalink
Nothing save man is better than a thousand like himself.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1423; Page No. 201 · permalink
Nothing will be easy unless one takes it easy.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1424; Page No. 201 · permalink
Nothing will be heavier than good temper in one's Balance of deeds.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1425; Page No. 201 · permalink
After me when Fornication will increase, sudden deaths will also increase
Greater Sins Vol 1, part 3, page 212 · permalink
O God! Add something to us and reduce not (anything) from us, keep us in honor and make us not humiliated, bestow (something) on us and deprive us not of (anything), give us superiority (to others) and subject us not to others' superiority, and make us pleased and be pleased with us.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1426; Page No. 202 · permalink
O God! Be hard on the leaders who are hard on my people, and treat with moderation those leaders who treat my people in like manner.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1427; Page No. 202 · permalink
O God! Beautify my temper as You beautified my face.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1428; Page No. 202 · permalink
O God! befriend me to put up with the pains and agonies of death.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1429; Page No. 202 · permalink
O God! Enrich me with knowledge, adorn me with forbearance, endear me with piety and beautify me with health.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1430; Page No. 202 · permalink
O God! forgive my sins, ignorance, prodigality and what you know of me better than I dodo God! Forgive my intentional and non-intentional slips, my serious and non-serious acts (&.sayings) and all my faults. O God! Forgive my past and future sins and my overt and covert ones.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1434; Page No. 203 · permalink
O God! Grant me health of body, ears and eyeshot God! I take refuge in You from poverty and blasphemy and from the chastisement in grave. There is no god but You.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1435; Page No. 203 · permalink
O God! grant me two tearful eyes to cure my heart through tears shed out of your fear, before tears turn into blood and teeth into fire.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1436; Page No. 203 · permalink