Good Deeds
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there is no way (to blame) against the doers of good..
Greater Sins Vol 2, The Twenty-SecondGreater Sin ,page 115; Surah Tauba 91 link
Jens will not make idiot those who have horses of noble birth at home.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1110; Page No. 158 link
Join the one who has renounced you, do good to the one who has wronged you and tell the truth, though it might be against you.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1113; Page No. 159 link
Justice is good but it's better with rulers, generosity is good but it's better with the rich, abstinence is good but it's better with the learned, patience is good but it's better with the poor, penitence is good but it's better with the youth, and chastity is good but it's better with women.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1116; Page No. 159 link
Make the most of your chances to do good deeds before a time when sedition comes to pass as gloomy as parts of dark nights, when man happens to be a believer in the morning but a disbeliever in the evening and vice versa, and when he exchanges his faith for the insignificant worldly fame.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1221; Page No. 175 link
Make the most of your chances to do good deeds prior to the occurrence of the following six: the rule of the ignorant, the trade of ranks and positions, belittlement of bloodshed, breaking bonds of kinship, the recitation of the Quran by the newcomers (in religion) who appoint a singer to imamate (leadership), though he is the least in understanding the religion.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1222; Page No. 175 link
How nice is lawfully-earned wealth for a pious man!
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 933; Page No. 131 link
As long as a man truly guides those who consult him he continues to enjoy correctness of opinion, but as soon as he starts deceiving them, the Exalted God will deprive him of this blessing.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 229; Page No. 38 link
Attending the weak is paying attention to me, for your sustenance and its support (by God) is for the sake of them.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 246; Page No. 40 link
Avail yourself of what God has made available for you.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 248; Page No. 41 link
Do not beat your bondswomen for breaking your bowls, for bowls are surely destined to die just as people do.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 472; Page No. 69 link
Do not consider any good deed as insignificant, and do not break it when you promise your brother (in faith).
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 474; Page No. 70 link
Do not curse the dead, for it annoys the living.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 475; Page No. 70 link
Do not curse the dead, for they have reached what they have sent ahead.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 476; Page No. 70 link
Abundant speech brings forth no eloquence; eloquence is meditation on what God and his Holy Prophet love. Neither is stammering a defect of tongue; stammering comes from deficient knowledge of Truth (God).
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 158; Page No. 29 link
Accomplishing a good deed is better than beginning it, (indeed).
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 161; Page No. 30 link
All affairs, being good or evil, belong to God.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 171; Page No. 31 link
Give up the doubtful and grasp the undoubtful. Verily, truthfulness entails salvation.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 680; Page No. 99 link
Give up the doubtful and grasp the undutiful, for surely you will not feel the lack of what you have abandoned for the sake of God.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 681; Page No. 99 link
Give up the doubtful and grasp the undutiful, for whoever grazes his cattle on the whereabouts of a forbidden pasture, might unwantedly find himself on it.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 682; Page No. 99 link
A guide to goodness is like unto its doer, and God loves helping the poor.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 74; Page No. 18 link
A just and most magnanimous man who must be observed in brotherhood and must not be backbited, is the one who treats people with justice, speaks to them in truth and does not break his promises.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 85; Page No. 20 link
Get accustomed to grief, for it's the light of man's heart. Keep yourself hungry and thirsty.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 663; Page No. 97 link
A good deed is recorded for whoever removes a stone from people's path.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 68; Page No. 17&18 link
Begin (your affairs) with what God has begun with.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 307; Page No. 49 link
Cheerfulness carries away one's hatred.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 388; Page No. 60 link
Keep up with good deeds, for it saves you from bad falls, and give covert alms, for it puts out the wrath of God, the Greatest and the most Powerful.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1131; Page No. 161&162 link
Keep your hands under control.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1132; Page No. 162 link
Keep your tongue under control.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1134; Page No. 162 link
Keep yourself intact by being suspicious about people.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1135; Page No. 162 link
Keeping disasters, diseases and alms in secret is among the treasures of goodness.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1137; Page No. 162 link
Keeping silent is better than dictating evil.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1138; Page No. 162 link
Be early rising, for in it there is blessing.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 269; Page No. 44 link
Do you know what a lion in its roar says? it says, "O God! Let me not win over benevolent people."
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 512; Page No. 74 link
"If a believer does good Allah multiplies each of his deed seven hundred times and it is in accordance with the saying of Allah: 'and Allah multiplies for whom He pleases'." [Surah Baqarah 2:261]
Sawab al-A`amal, Page 219 link
"If one intends to do a small act with the sole intention of pleasing Allah, Allah causes this small deed of his to be manifested on a greater scale upon the people. (On the contrary) if someone performs the greatest of deeds which causes him physical tiredness and exhaustion due to wakeful nights, while his intention had been to acquire the praise of people, his deed would be reduced to a trifle by Allah and manifested on the people." (till the people begin to dislike him.)
Greater Sins Vol 1, Part 3, page 77; Al Kafi link
"A person who does good in the world is like a person who does good in the hereafter." Someone asked, "O Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.s.)! How is it possible?" He replied, "He will be forgiven by the mercy of Allah. His good deeds will be given to other people also and they will be made to enter Paradise. Hence he will be doing good in the world as well as the hereafter."
Sawab al-A`amal, Page 235 link
God taught me courtesy and how nice was it (to me)!
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 734; Page No. 105 link
God will be pleased with whoever seeks His consent, even if it leads to people's anger, and will be angry about whoever seeks people's consent by making Him displeased.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 738; Page No. 106 link
God will create a good relation between people and the one who establishes a good relation with Him, and will amend the outward conditions of the one who rectifies his inner self.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 740; Page No. 106 link
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