Hadith

Bad Manners

10 sayings

1. The Holy Prophet [s] said

   I am anxious about three things to happen to my people after my death: deviated carnal desires, unbounded sexuality and gluttony, and negligence after knowledge.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 943; Page No. 133 link

2. The Holy Prophet [s] said

   I am worried about my (Islamic) nation more of gluttony, over-sleeping, laziness and weakness of faith than anything else.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 952; Page No. 134&135 link

3. The Holy Prophet [s] said

   Four things show one's wretchedness: drained eyes, hard - heartedness, inaccessible ambitions and excessive love for survival.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 654; Page No. 95 link

4. The Holy Prophet [s] said

   If bad-temperedness were a man walking(living) among people, it would be a bad one, and the Exalted God has surely not created me an abusive man.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 986; Page No. 139 link

5. The Holy Prophet [s] said

   How is God (expected) to consider a people as pious, who do not endeavor to take back the rights of the weak from the powerful?

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 924; Page No. 130 link

6. The Holy Prophet [s] said

   He who utters indecent words about the dead is like unto the one who is at the verge of ruin.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 886; Page No. 126 link

7. The Holy Prophet [s] said

   Hidden ambition and (false) pretension are (two kinds of) polytheism.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 904; Page No. 128 link

8. The Holy Prophet [s] said

   Five things give rise to five other things: those who break their promise will be subjected to the rule of their enemies. Those who judge contrary to God's Law, will suffer poverty. Those who commit obscene acts, will face recurrent unexpected deaths. Those who make use of short weights in selling, will be afflicted with famine. Those who do not give poor-rate, will suffer years of drought.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 621; Page No. 90 link

9. The Holy Prophet [s] said

   For every sin there is (a form of) penitence, save for bad-temperedness.

   Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 627; Page No. 91 link

10. The Holy Prophet [s] said

    For every sin there is a way of repenting before God, save ill- temperedness, for verily an ill-tempered person does not repent of any sin without a later return to something worse.

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 628; Page No. 91 link

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