Hadith

Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa [s]

4860 sayings · page 66 of 122

1. Read the Quran if it keeps you away from evil; if (you feel) it does not, you are not a true reader of it.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1612; Page No. 229 · permalink

2. Read the Quran, for the Exalted God does not torture the heart which has perceived it.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1613; Page No. 229 · permalink

3. Real patience is realized when one suffers a calamity for the first time.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1614; Page No. 229 · permalink

4. Receive the one who takes refuge in you in the name of God, give something to the one who begs you in the name of God, accept the invitation of the one who invites you, and be kind to the one who is kind to you; if you cannot do so, pray for him instead as long as you make sure you have made up his kindness.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1615; Page No. 230 · permalink

5. Refrain from avarice, for it ruined your predecessors. It led them to misery and they became misers, it led them to breaking the bonds of kinship and they did so, and it led them to wickedness and they became wicked.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1624; Page No. 231 · permalink

6. Refrain from backbiting, for it is worse than adultery. Verily, when someone commits adultery and repents, God accepts his repentance, but a backbiter will not be forgiven until he is first forgiven by the backbitten.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1625; Page No. 231 · permalink

7. Refrain from bad friends, for you are identified through them.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1626; Page No. 231 · permalink

8. Refrain from begging, for it is immediate meanness, and the poverty towards which you haste.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1627; Page No. 231 · permalink

9. Refrain from borrowing, for it leads to the sorrow of night and meanness of day.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1628; Page No. 231 · permalink

10. Refrain from eulogy, for it is like unto cutting off one's head.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1629; Page No. 231 · permalink

11. Refrain from foolish friends, for they'll cause you evil, though good they intend.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1630; Page No. 231 · permalink

12. Refrain from going to extremes in matters religious, for it ruined your predecessors.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1631; Page No. 231 · permalink

13. Refrain from greed, for it is immediate poverty.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1632; Page No. 232 · permalink

14. Refrain from hidden passion: it is when a scholar likes people to sit in his presence.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1633; Page No. 232 · permalink

15. Wine is the mother of all indecent deeds and great capital sins, and whoever drinks it may happen to commit adultery with his own mother and aunts.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 3147. · permalink

16. Wine is the mother of all wickedness. Thus, the prayers of the one who drinks wine will not be accepted for forty days, and if he dies with wine in his veins, his death will be that of the Age of Ignorance.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 3148. · permalink

17. Wine makes the totality of all sins.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 3149. · permalink

18. Winter is the spring of a believer.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 3150. · permalink

19. Wisdom causes (and is the object of) intimacy.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 3151. · permalink

20. Wisdom is a believer's lost one. Hearing it from anybody, s(he) takes it in, regardless of its source.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 3152. · permalink

21. Wisdom is loss in matters secular, and joy in matters religious.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 3153. · permalink

22. Wisdom starts with knowing God.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 3154. · permalink

23. Wisdom starts with piety.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 3155. · permalink

24. Wise sayings are believers' lost ones- wherever they happen to find them, they would be more entitled (than others) to catch them.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 3156. · permalink

25. Wise sayings are lost ones of the wise.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 3157. · permalink

26. Every heart is hanging from two fingers of the Meciful God's Fingers of Power, which He holds fast or lets fall if He wills, and the scale of people's deeds is in God's hands, by which He will lift up a group or push down another in the Day of Judgment.

    Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 546, Page No. 80 · permalink

27. Every king has restrictions (of his own), and God's one on earth is His prohibitions.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 547; Page No. 80 · permalink

28. Every midnight, the doors of heavens open and a caller calls out: "Is there anyone to pray and enjoy (God's) acceptance? Is there anyone to ask for something to be answered in the positive? Is there a sorrow-stricken to be relieved of his sadness?" Thus, there remains nobody with unaccepted requests, save and adulterous woman who trades her privy parts and a tax- taker who usurps people's property.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 548; Page No. 80 · permalink

29. God will improve one's relation to people, if (s)he improves his/her relation to Him, will correct one's outward status, if (s)he corrects his/her inner self, and will give one sufficiency in the world, if (s)he works for the Hereafter.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 750; Page No. 107 · permalink

30. God will in the Hereafter echo in the ears of people the disgrace of whoever echoes his knowledge in the ears of people (in this world), and will lower and belittle him.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 751; Page No. 107 · permalink

31. God will keep His wrath away from the one who restrains one's anger, and will cover the faults of the one who controls one's tongue.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 752; Page No. 108 · permalink

32. God will keep in honor a servant who loves another one (for His sake).

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 753; Page No. 108 · permalink

33. God will keep in the Hereafter the secret of the one who keeps the secret of his Muslim brothers in this world and does not disgrace them.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 754; Page No. 108 · permalink

34. God will make a servant's property end in good, should (s)he give good charity.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 755; Page No. 108 · permalink

35. God will make a wasteful person rule over anyone who sells something rotten.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 756; Page No. 108 · permalink

36. God will make everybody a company to those whom (s)he loves (in the Hereafter).

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 757; Page No. 108 · permalink

37. God will make everything fear the one who fears Him, and will make one fear everything if s(he) fears Him not.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 758; Page No. 108 · permalink

38. God will make everything fear the one who fears Him.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 759; Page No. 108 · permalink

39. God will make one suffer the unlawful, if (s)he is ashamed to act upon the lawful.

    Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 760, Page No. 108 · permalink

40. God will make one's faith vanish when s(he) commits adultery or drinks wine, just as one puts off his/her shirt.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 761; Page No. 109 · permalink

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