Hadith

Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa [s]

4860 sayings · page 69 of 122

1. The best witness is s(he) who bears testimony before being required to.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1947; Page No. 272 · permalink

2. The best wives have the least marriage portions.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1948; Page No. 272 · permalink

3. The best woman is an affectionate one who bears many a child.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1949; Page No. 272 · permalink

4. The best woman is the one who gladdens her husband when he looks at her, obeys his orders, and avoids doing anything he dislikes through her body and property.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1950; Page No. 272 · permalink

5. Repentance expiates sins. If you did not commit sins, God would create other people to commit sins to be forgiven by Him.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1678; Page No. 237 · permalink

6. Repentance from a sin is to stop committing that sin again.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1679; Page No. 237 · permalink

7. Repentance has a door in the west, open as long as seventy years, till some verses of your Lord come down, and then the Sun will rise from it's west.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1680; Page No. 237 · permalink

8. Respect those who teach you as well as those whom you teach.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1681; Page No. 237 · permalink

9. Restore your patients to health through charity, for it wards off all sorts of illness and evil.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1682; Page No. 238 · permalink

10. Retelling what one hears suffices to make of him/her a liar, and claiming to take back one's rights without conniving at any part of it suffices to show his/her stinginess.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1683; Page No. 238 · permalink

11. Retelling what one hears suffices to make of him/her a liar.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1684; Page No. 238 · permalink

12. Retelling what one hears suffices to make of him/her a sinner.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1685; Page No. 238 · permalink

13. Return the residue of thread and cloth (to their owners), for whoever commits treachery in these, will be demanded in the Day of Judgment to provide the like of them, without being able to do so.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1686; Page No. 238 · permalink

14. Return to the Exalted God for forgiveness, for I myself do so a hundred times a day.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1687; Page No. 238 · permalink

15. Choose many friends, for your Lord is so modest and merciful that He hesitates to chastise His servant among his brothers (in faith) in the Day of Judgment.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 390; Page No. 60 · permalink

16. Choose suitable containers for your sperms, for women give birth to the like of their brothers and sisters.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 391; Page No. 60 · permalink

17. Choose suitable containers for your sperms, marry women (and give your daughters in marriage to men) of equal status to yours.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 392; Page No. 60 · permalink

18. Choose your neighbor before buying a house, and find a friend before taking a trip.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 393; Page No. 60 · permalink

19. Choose your neighbor before buying a house, your companion before selecting a way, and your provision before setting out on a trip.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 394; Page No. 60 · permalink

20. Choosing a bride from one's own family is like growing grass in one's own house.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 395; Page No. 60 · permalink

21. Clean your clothes, beautify your hair, brush your teeth and be all made up and tidy, for the children of Israel did not do so and their wives turned out to be adulterous.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 396; Page No. 60&61 · permalink

22. Clean your mouths by brushing.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 397; Page No. 61 · permalink

23. Clean yourself of urine, for it's the cause of most punishments in the grave.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 398; Page No. 61 · permalink

24. Committing adultery with ten women is less sinful than doing so with a neighbor's wife, and stealing from ten houses is easier (i.e. has an easier punishment) than robbing a neighbor's house.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 405; Page No. 61 · permalink

25. Compared with martyrs' blood, the learned's ink is weightier (worthier).

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 406; Page No. 62 · permalink

26. Complete repentance is repenting (one's) sins in the sense that when you commit a sin, you should ask for the Exalted God's forgiveness and never commit that sin again.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 407; Page No. 62 · permalink

27. Connivance at the world is of patience and is much harder to do than to use swords in the way of God, the Powerful, the Great.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 408; Page No. 62 · permalink

28. Connive at a scholar's slip and await him to the right direction to keep.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 409; Page No. 62 · permalink

29. Connive at the shortcomings of the merciful people; for by the God who rules over my soul, whenever one of them slips, a helping hand to him God gives.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 410; Page No. 62 · permalink

30. Connive at the sins of a generous man, for whenever he slips, God gives him a hand.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 411; Page No. 62 · permalink

31. Connive at what you are worried about its performance.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 412; Page No. 62 · permalink

32. Connive at whatever your heart does not accept.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 413; Page No. 62 · permalink

33. Constant contention (with others) suffices to make of you a sinner.

    Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 414, Page No. 62 · permalink

34. Consult women concerning their daughters.

    Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 415, Page No. 63 · permalink

35. Consultation is a wall for regret and safety against reproach.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 416; Page No. 63 · permalink

36. The best of faith is to know that Allah is with you wherever you are.

    Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 66; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 289 · permalink

37. The best of faith is patience and liberality.

    Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 74; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 289 · permalink

38. Faith has about seventy branches, the best of them is the statement: "There is no god but Allah", and the lowest of them is to remove obstacles from the path. And chastity is a branch of faith.

    Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 52; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 290 · permalink

39. The strongest bonds of faith are: accepting Allah's guardianship, to love for the sake of Allah and to hate for the sake of Allah.

    Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 43525; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 291 · permalink

40. Three qualities which, when present in a person, enable him to savour the taste of faith: that nothing is more beloved to him than Allah and His Messenger, that to be burned in the Fire is more beloved to him than to denounce his religion, and that he loves for the sake of Allah and hates for the sake of Allah.

    Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 72]; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 293 · permalink

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