Hadith

Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa [s]

4860 sayings · page 63 of 122

1. Some of you can detect a tiny thorn in your brother's eyes, but not a tree branch in your own.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1778; Page No. 251 · permalink

2. Chastity entails nothing but goodness.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 382; Page No. 59 · permalink

3. Whoever borrows (something), intending not to give it back, will be resurrected by God as a thief.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2919. · permalink

4. Prostration of a human for another human being is not permitted. (If it had been) I would have ordered the wife to prostrate before her husband

   Greater Sins Vol 1, Part 3, page 70; Wasaelush Shia · permalink

5. The Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) said,

   Greater Sins Vol 1, Part 3, page 75; Behaarul Anwaar · permalink

6. Someone enquired from the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) as to how could salvation be attained on the Day of Judgement? He replied,

   Greater Sins Vol 1, Part 3, page 75; Muhajjatul Baidha, Behaarul Anwaar · permalink

7. Whoever breaks off bonds of kinship or swears falsely, will face due penalty before death.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 2920. · permalink

8. The Holy Prophet (s.a.w) has informed,

   Greater Sins Vol 1, Part 3, page 75,76 · permalink

9. One who assumes the responsibility of the community in spite of the presence of learned scholars and jurists, shall be in the base level (of Hell).

   Iqbal al-A`amal, page 262 · permalink

10. Imam Ja'far Sadiq (a.s.) narrates from his ancestors that the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) said, "Paradise awaits the arrival of those who love Ali (a.s.) in this world and it awaits to increase the light for the lovers of Ali (a.s.). Similarly Hell awaits the enemies of Ali in this world with horrible sounds."

    Iqbal al-A`amal, page 263 · permalink

11. Wishing a ruler good, God appoints for him an honest minister to remind him of what he forgets and help him in what he remembers to do, and wishing him evil, God appoints for him a dishonest minister who does the reverse.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 3159. · permalink

12. Wishing evil for a people, God entrusts their affairs to the seekers of luxury among them.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 3160. · permalink

13. Wishing good for a family, God grants them leniency and moderation.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 3161. · permalink

14. Wishing good for a people, God makes their learned increase (in number) and their ignorant decrease to the extent that when a learned man talks, he is followed and supported by many and when an ignorant person talks, he fails to succeed, and when the reverse God wishes, the other way round will be the situation.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 3162. · permalink

15. Wishing good for a people, God trusts authority (government), judgment and wealth respectively to the forbearing, learned and generous among them, and wishing them evil, He trusts such things to the stupid, ignorant and miserly among them.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 3163. · permalink

16. Wishing good for someone, God appoints a preacher within him to bid him to good and forbid him from evil.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 3164. · permalink

17. Wishing good for someone, God assigns him a job. "How?", the people asked. The Holy Prophet retorted: "He causes him to engage in a good deed before his death, thereby pleasing those around him.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 3165. · permalink

18. Wishing good for someone, God offers him leniency and moderation in life, and wishing him evil, He inflicts him with ignorance.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 3166. · permalink

19. Wishing good for someone, God purifies him before his death. "How?", the people asked. The Holy Prophet retorted: "He inspires him to engage in doing a good deed and takes his soul meanwhile.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 3167. · permalink

20. Wishing good for someone, God rebukes him in his dreams.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 3168. · permalink

21. Wishing good for someone, God sweetens him. "How", the people asked. The Holy Prophet retorted: "He gives him the opportunity to do something good before death and takes his soul meanwhile.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 3169. · permalink

22. Wishing ruin for someone, God deprives him of all solutions.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 3170. · permalink

23. Wishing the destruction (or annihilation) of a people, God lets adultery prevail among them.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 3171. · permalink

24. Wishing to create something, nothing can stop Him doing so.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 3172. · permalink

25. Wishing to put His decrees to practice, the Exalted God makes the learned person's wisdom vanish (for a while) and subjects them to His will, and when this is accomplished, He gives their intellects back to them and regretful they turn.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 3173. · permalink

26. Mendacity of tongue is one of the greatest sins.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1310; Page No. 186 · permalink

27. Most people face loss in two blessings: good health and peace of mind.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1329; Page No. 189 · permalink

28. Mention not (the names of) three persons: a man who has kept distance with people disobeyed his leader and died in that disobedience, a slave (man or woman) who has escaped from his master and died thereof, and a woman whose absent husband pays her expenses, but beautifies herself (for others) in his absence.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1311; Page No. 187 · permalink

29. Mentioning God's blessings is thankfulness (to Him) and abandoning it is ungratefulness, and whoever is ungrateful to little will be as such to great (blessings), and whoever is thankless to people is thankless to God. Unity brings good and discord, agony.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1312; Page No. 187 · permalink

30. Might does not lie in fight(wrestling), but in keeping cool when wrathful.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1313; Page No. 187 · permalink

31. Mind your mother, your mother, your mother, then mind your father and then, your close relatives.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1314; Page No. 187 · permalink

32. Mind! everyone of you has a greater liking for the wealth she (he) inherits than for that of his (her) own. Your wealth is what you send forth, and your heir's wealth is what you leave behind.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1315; Page No. 187 · permalink

33. Mind! patience is coupled with victory, pain with relief and hardship with ease.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1316; Page No. 187 · permalink

34. Mind! the pen of fate has recorded all possible things.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1317; Page No. 188 · permalink

35. Mind! What has occurred to you was destined to occur to you, and what has not, was not.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1318; Page No. 188 · permalink

36. Mind, people cannot grant you anything if God does not wish so, and they cannot spare you anything if God wishes the reverse. Thus, offer your requests to God and ask Him for help.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1319; Page No. 188 · permalink

37. Misers will not be allowed to Paradise.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1320; Page No. 188 · permalink

38. Moderateness in living (livelihood) shows man's deep knowledge.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1321; Page No. 188 · permalink

39. Moderateness in spending (money) is on half of sustenance, friendship with people is one half of wisdom and asking questions properly is one half of knowledge.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1322; Page No. 188 · permalink

40. Moderateness in spending (money) is one half of sustenance and good-temperedness, one half of faith.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1323; Page No. 188 · permalink

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