Hadith

Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa [s]

4860 sayings · page 78 of 122

1. God's hand is with the community (of people).

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 801; Page No. 114 · permalink

2. God's increased blessings to a servant causes people's increased requests to him, and whoever does not manage to settle these requests will surely jeopardize such blessings.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 802; Page No. 114 · permalink

3. God's pleasure with a penitent person weighs over that of a thirsty man who arrives at water or a barren woman who begets a child or a loser who finds his lost one. Verily He will make the guardian angels, his limbs and all the points on the earth to forget the sins and faults of the one who repents and turns to God sincerely.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 803; Page No. 114&115 · permalink

4. God's pleasure with His creature's repentance weighs over that of any one of you finding his lost camel in a desert.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 804; Page No. 115 · permalink

5. God's pleasure with His creature's repentance weighs over that of a barren woman who begets a child or a loser who finds his lost one or a thirsty man who arrives at water.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 805; Page No. 115 · permalink

6. God's power over you is more than your power over Him.

   Nahj al Fasahah, Tradition No. 806, Page No. 115 · permalink

7. Gold and silk are lawful (to be used) for the women of my (Islamic) nation, and unlawful for men.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 807; Page No. 115 · permalink

8. Good deeds ward off bad falls, hidden charity quenches God's wrath and observing the bonds of kinship prolongs one's life. Every good deed is charity, and the benevolent and the wicked of this world will be the benevolent and the wicked of the Hereafter, with the benevolent being the first to enter Paradise.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 808; Page No. 115 · permalink

9. Good intention leads its owner to Paradise.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 809; Page No. 115 · permalink

10. Good manners are deeds of Paradise.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 810; Page No. 115 · permalink

11. Good manners are ten in number.They may be found in a man but not in his son, in a son but not in his father, and in a servant but not in his master, and God bestows them upon those whom he wishes to prosper.They are: sincere talk, steadfastness in war, donation to the poor, goodness for goodness, trustfulness, keeping the bonds of kinship, supporting friends, supporting neighbors, hospitality, and above all, chastity.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 811; Page No. 116 · permalink

12. Good-naturedness is a curb of God's Mercy in the mouth of its holder and under the control of an angel leading him to goodness which guides him to Paradise, and bad-naturedness is a curb of God's punishment in the mouth of its holder and under the control of Satan leading him to evil which shows him the way to Fire.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 819; Page No. 117 · permalink

13. Good-naturedness is goodness (blessing) and bad-naturedness, evil.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 820; Page No. 117 · permalink

14. Good-naturedness is goodness, bad naturedness is evil, obedience to women leads to penitence, and bad deaths are prevented through benevolence.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 821; Page No. 117 · permalink

15. Everything, even birds in skies and fish in sees, curse those who conceal knowledge.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 568; Page No. 83 · permalink

16. He who usurps the property of a believer without having right to it, Allah continues to abandon him, despising all the good and righteous deeds that he performs, not recording them among his good deeds until and unless he repents and returns the property that he seized to its rightful owner.

    Mustadrak al-Wasa`il, v. 17, p. 89, no. 20823; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 967 · permalink

17. Verily Allah, Mighty and Exalted, curses the usurer, his agent, his scribe and his two witnesses

    Amali al-Saduq, p. 346, no. 1; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 969 · permalink

18. Do not stand up [for others] like the foreigners stand up for each other

    Bihar al-Anwar, v. 16, p. 240; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 971 · permalink

19. Whoever likes people to stand up for him should take a seat for himself in the Fire

    Bihar al-Anwar, v. 16, p. 240; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 971 · permalink

20. I saw Salman and Bilal approaching the Prophet (SAWA) when Salman threw himself at the Prophet (SAWA)' s feet, kissing them. So the Prophet (SAWA) stopped him from doing that, and said to him, 'O Salman, do not do unto me as the foreigners do with their kings I am a servant from among the servants of Allah, eating what a servant eats and sitting how a servant sits.

    Bihar al-Anwar, v. 76, p. 63, no. 3; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 971 · permalink

21. Selfishness ruins one's worship of seventy years.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1721; Page No. 242 · permalink

22. Sense of duty, fidelity and praising God stand at the peak of all religious affairs.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1722; Page No. 243 · permalink

23. Serving your wife is a kind of charity.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1723; Page No. 243 · permalink

24. Everything, even fish in seas, asks forgiveness for the learned.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 569; Page No. 83 · permalink

25. Everything, even inability and sagacity, has a due extent.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 570; Page No. 83 · permalink

26. Evil and scurrility degrade, but modesty decorates their hosts.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 571; Page No. 83 · permalink

27. Good tidings of this world are pleasant dreams.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 815; Page No. 116 · permalink

28. Good words are (acts of) charity.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 816; Page No. 116 · permalink

29. Good-manneredness roots from man's happiness.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 817; Page No. 116 · permalink

30. Good-naturedness belongs to the Great Lord.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 818; Page No. 116 · permalink

31. Good name (fame) is one single part of the seventy- five parts of prophethood.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 812; Page No. 116 · permalink

32. Good name (fame), gentleness and moderateness make one single part of the twenty- four parts of prophethood.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 813; Page No. 116 · permalink

33. Stay long in the gardens of Heaven.' They asked, 'O Messenger of Allah! What are the gardens of Heaven?' He said, 'Gatherings where Allah is remembered [dhikr sessions].

    Bihar al-Anwar, v. 93, p. 163, no. 42; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 875 · permalink

34. Assemblies are of three kinds: profitable, safe, and blameworthy. The profitable one is that wherein Allah, the Exalted, is remembered; the safe one is that which is silent; and the blameworthy one is the one that engages in vice

    Nuzhat al-Nadhir, p. 20, no. 49; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 876 · permalink

35. The expiation (kaffara) for sitting in assemblies is to say, 'Glory be to You, O Allah, and Praise be to You; there is no God but You. O Lord! Forgive me and accept my repentance.

    Bihar al-Anwar, v. 75, p. 467, no. 17; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 876 · permalink

36. The Disciples said to Prophet Jesus (AS), 'O Spirit of Allah! With whom must we sit?' He said, 'Those who remind you of Allah when you look at them, whose speech increases your knowledge, and whose deeds draw you to the Hereafter

    Tuhaf al-`Uqoul, no. 44; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 877 · permalink

37. Do not sit but with every scholar who calls you from five states to five states: from doubt to certainty, from hypocrisy to sincerity, from desire to fear [of Allah], from arrogance to humility, and from deceit to honesty.

    Bihar al-Anwar, v. 74, p. 188, no. 18; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 877 · permalink

38. Feign poverty and love the poor; sit with them and help them, and shun the companionship of the rich and be kind to them and covet not their wealth

    Tanbih al-Khawatir, v. 2, p. 120; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 877 · permalink

39. Three types of people whose companionship slays the heart: sitting with cowards, chatting with women, and sitting with the rich.

    al-Khisal, p. 87, no. 2; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 879 · permalink

40. Beware of sitting with the dead.' He was asked, 'O Messenger of Allah, who are the dead?' He replied, 'Every rich person whose wealth has made a tyrant of him

    Tanbih al-Khawatir, v. 2, p. 32; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 879 · permalink

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