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MAXIMS OF THE PROPHET

The following are the long maxims and words of wisdom that are related to the Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him and his family).

Long Maxims of the Prophet

The Prophet’s Commandment for Imam Ali

O Ali, to avoid pleasing anyone and discontenting God, thanking anyone for a favor that God has given to you, and reproaching anyone for something that God has not given to you - these are parts of the conviction. The sustenance cannot be obtained through (any sort of) niggardliness and will not be ceased when someone hates it. Out of His wisdom and grace, God has made relief and delight lie in conviction and satisfaction, and made care and grief lie in suspect and malice.

O Ali, no poverty is harsher than ignorance, no fortune better than the intellect, no loneliness drearier than pride, no victory like counseling, no intellect like moderation, no lineage like good manners, and no worship like pondering (over things).

O Ali, untruth is the epidemic of talking, oblivion is the epidemic of knowledge, laziness is the epidemic of worship, to remind reproachfully (of your favors) is the epidemic of leniency, despot is the epidemic of courage, showing off is the epidemic of handsomeness, and pride is the epidemic of (belonging to good) ancestry.

O Ali, keep up saying the truth and your mouth should never utter any single lie. Never approach any treason. Fear God as if you see Him before you. Sacrifice your property and soul for the sake of your religion. Ride the good manners and avoid the ill manners.

O Ali, the most favorable deeds to God are three: the best worshipper is he who fulfills the obligatory duties of God properly. The most pious of people is he who abstains from the forbidden matters. The wealthiest of people is he who satisfies himself with that which God has given to him.

O Ali, three characters are the high moral standards: they are to regard him who ruptured his relations with you, give him who deprived you (of his bestowals), and pardon him who wronged you.

O Ali, three matters save you: (They are) to control your tongue (stop saying obscene language or stop reviling at people), to weep for your sins, and to contend with your home.

O Ali, three characters are the masters of deeds: they are to treat people fairly, justify your friends, and to praise God under any condition.

O Ali, three categories (of people) are the guests of God: they are a man who visits his faithful brother for God’s sake. This man is certainly God’s guest, and it is incumbent upon God to honor His guests and satisfy their needs. The second is a man who offers a prayer and immediately offers another. He is surely God’s guest and it is incumbent upon God to honor His guest. The hajji and the performer of umrah are the delegations to God, and it is incumbent upon God to honor His delegations.

O Ali, three matters are rewarded in this world and the world to come: the hajj eradicates poverty, the almsgiving eradicates catastrophes, and regard of the relatives increases the age.

O Ali, the deeds of those who do not enjoy the following three characters are nil: piety that impedes against committing acts of disobedience to God the Glorified the Majestic, knowledge that protects against the ignorance of the foolish ones, and an intellect that helps in associating with people courteously.

O Ali, three men will be stood under the shade of the (Divine) Throne on the Day of Resurrection: they are a man who likes for his friend whatever he likes for himself, a man who stops doing any thing before he realizes whether it pleases or displeases God, and a man who does not find fault with his friends before he himself gets rid of that fault. A man will find a new fault with himself whenever he gets rid of one. It is quite sufficient for a man to engage with himself.

O Ali, three matters are within the doors to charity: they are generosity, good wording, and steadfastness against harm.

O Ali, it is written in the Torah that four matters always accompany other four ones. He who begins his day with acquisitiveness is beginning his day with discontentment to God. He who complains about misfortune is complaining his Lord. Two thirds of the religion of him who declines before a rich man are gone. The people of this umma who will be in Hell are surely those who deride and disregard the Verses (or signs) of God.

Four matters always accompany other four ones. He who holds a position of leadership will surely act arbitrarily. He who does not seek others’ advice will surely regret. As you subjugate, you will surely be subjugated. Poverty is the grand death.

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) was asked whether the intended poverty is the financial neediness. He answered:

No, it is the poverty of the religion.

O Ali, except three, every eye will be weeping on the Day of Resurrection. These three are an eye that spent a night sleeplessly for God’s sake, an eye that is lowered before what God has prohibited to gaze, and an eye that shed tears due to fearing God.

O Ali, blessed be the face (of an individual) that God notices (him) weeping for a sin, which no one has seen except Him.

O Ali, three matters are destructive and three others are rescuing. The three destructive matters are the pursued passion, the obeyed niggardliness, and the self-conceit. The three rescuing matters are to treat (others) fairly in both situations of satisfaction and displeasure, to be moderate in both situations of richness and poverty, and to fear God secretly and openly. Fear God as if you see Him. If you do not see Him, He can surely see you.

O Ali, untruth may be acceptable only in three situations; in the stratagem of wars, promising the wife, and for reconciliation between people.

O Ali, truth is dis-commended in three situations; in states of talebearing, informing the husband of what he does not like to hear about his wife, and telling the falsity of a speech of goodness.

O Ali, four matters go uselessly: to eat after (attaining) satiety, to light a lamp in the moonlit, to seed in the briny land, and to do favors to the undeserved.

O Ali, four matters are the quickest in punishment: to recompense the favor with mistreatment, to trespass him who does not show hostility, to break the faith of the party who keeps up his faith, and to rupturing the relations with the relatives who regard you properly.

O Ali, those who keep these four characters enjoy perfect Islam. These characters are telling truth only, showing gratitude, prudence, and good mannerism.

O Ali, the present richness is surely the fewness of asking from people. To ask from people frequently is surely humility. It is also the present poverty.

Another Brief Commandment of the Prophet for Imam Ali

O Ali, a faithful believer must enjoy three characteristics: they are fasting, offering prayers, and almsgiving. Likewise, the false believer enjoys three characteristics: he flatters slavishly when he witnesses (a situation), backbites, and rejoices over the others’ misfortunes.

The unjust people must enjoy three characteristics: they dominate him who is less powerful than they are by means of their powers, they dominate him who is more powerful than they are by means of acts of disobedience (to God), and they support the oppressors.

The showy has three characteristics: he activates among people, he becomes lazy when he is alone, and he desires to be praised in all states.

The hypocrite has three characteristics: he lies in speech, breaches his trusts, and breaks his promise.

The indolent has three characteristics: he slackens until he neglects, neglects until he wastes, and wastes until he commits a sin.

The intelligent ones should always be active except in three situations; in seeking the worldly earnings, stepping for a reward, and gaining a legal pleasure.

O Ali, no poverty is harsher than ignorance, no fortune is more useful than the mind, no loneliness is gloomier than self-esteem, no activity like moderation, no piety like abstinence, and no ancestry like good mannerism.

Untruth is the epidemic of speech, oblivion is the epidemic of knowledge, reminding (others of your favors) reproachfully is the epidemic of leniency.

O Ali, whenever your sight falls on the new moon, you should say ‘Allahu Akbar’[3] three times, and say: ‘All praise be to God Who created you and me and made you on various stages and made you a sign for all peoples.’[4]

O Ali, whenever you look in a mirror, you should say ‘Allahu Akbar’ three times, and say: O Allah, Better my morals in the same way You bettered my creation.[5]

O Ali, whenever you a matter frightens you, you should say: O Allah, (I implore to You) by the right of Mohammed and Mohammed’s family, relieve my fear.[6]

Ali (peace be upon him) said: I asked, “O God’s messenger, what are the words that are intended in God’s saying: Then Adam received (some) words from his Lord? [7] The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) answered:

O Ali, God brought down Adam (from Paradise) in India, Eve in Jeddah[8] , the snake in Isfahan[9] , and the Shaitan in Maysan.[10] In Paradise, nothing was better than the snake, which had four legs like a camel, and the peacock. The Shaitan entered in the interior of the snake and could deceive Adam. Hence, God got angry at the snake. He amputated its legs and said: “I will make the dust as your earnings and will make you walk on your belly. I will not compassionate anyone who treats you kindly.” He also got angry at the peacock because it showed the Shaitan the tree. Hence, He took its sound and two legs. For one hundred years, Adam stayed -in India- unable to raise the head to the heavens. He used to put the hands on the head weeping for his guilt. Then, God sent Gabriel the angel to tell him that the Exalted Lord sends His greetings to him and say: “O Adam, have I not created you with My hand? Have I not blown you from My soul? Have I not made the angels bow before you? Have I not given My servant, Eve, to you in marriage? Have I not lodged you in My Paradise? What for are you weeping, then? You should utter these words and God will surely accept your repentance. Say: All praise is due to You. There is no god but You. I had done wrong and wronged myself. Accept my repentance. You are surely the Oft-returning, the Merciful.” (These were the words that Adam received from his Lord Who accepted his repentance.)

O Ali, if you feel a snake in your luggage, you should allow it three times. In the fourth, you should kill it, because it, in this case, is atheist.

O Ali, you should kill any snake that you see in your way. I have taken a pledge on the jinn that they should never be in the appearance of a snake.

O Ali, four characters are signs of unhappiness: they are solidity of the eye, hardheartedness, long hope, and fondness of the worldly pleasures.

O Ali, whenever someone praises you face to face, you should say: “O Allah, make me better than what he thinks of me, forgive my sins that he does not know, and do not blame me for what he has said.”[11]

O Ali, whenever you copulate with your wife, you should say: “In the Name of Allah. O Allah, take the Shaitan away from us and from what you will grant.”[12] If it is ordained that you will be given a baby, the Shaitan will never hurt it (if you say these words).

O Ali, begin (your meals) with the salt and end with it. Salt is surely the cure of seventy diseases the least of which is psychosis and leprosy.

O Ali, use the olive oil. The Shaitan will not approach those who use the olive oil for forty nights.

O Ali, do not copulate on the night before the fifteenth of every - lunar- month and the night before the first of every - lunar- month. Have you not noticed that the insane are often affected on these two nights?

O Ali, if you have a baby, you should recite azan, in his right ear and recite iqama[13] in the left. Thus, the Shaitan will never affect him.

O Ali, may I inform you of the evilest people?

Ali (peace be upon him): I said, “Yes, you may, God’s Messenger.” He (peace be upon him and his family) said:

They are those who never forgive and never overlook. May I inform of those who are worse than those people are?

Ali (peace be upon him): I said, “Yes, you may, God’s Messenger.” He (peace be upon him and his family) said:

They are those whose evil is not secured and good is not expected from them.

Another Commandment of the Prophet to Imam Ali

O Ali, do not go to the bathroom naked. Damn are those who go to the bathroom naked and those who look at them.

O Ali, do not wear a ring in the forefinger or the middle finger. People of Lot the prophet (peace be upon him)[14] used to wear their rings in those two fingers. You should never disrobe the pinkie (A ring should always be in your pinkie).

O Ali, God surely likes the servant who says, “O Lord, forgive me. Except You, no one forgives the sins.”[15] In this case, the Lord says: “O My angels, My servant has known that except Me, no one forgives the sins. Be the witnesses, I have forgiven him.”

O Ali, beware of telling untruths, for it blackens the face then the teller of lies will be recorded with God as liar. Honesty whitens the face and the honest will be recorded with God as truthful. You should know that honesty is blessed and lie is ill-omened.

O Ali, beware of backbiting and talebearing. Backbiting breaks the - ritual- fasting and talebearing causes the burial punishment.

O Ali, do not swear by God whether you say the truth or not except in cases of emergency. Do not make God the subject of your oath, for God will never keep or compassionate him who swears by His Name falsely.

O Ali, do not care for tomorrow’s livelihood. Every tomorrow comes with its livelihood.

O Ali, beware of disputation, for begins with ignorance and ends with regret.

O Ali, persist in using the toothbrush, for it purifies the mouth, satisfies the Lord, and betters the sight. Cleaning the teeth (with a special stick called khilal) makes the angels approach you, for they dislike the malodor of those who do not clean their mouths after eating.

O Ali, do not be angry (under any circumstances). If you are enraged, you should sit down and think of the Lord’s power over His servants; yet, He treats them leniently. If someone says to you, “Fear God,” you should try to relinquish your rage and cling to your (feeling of) clemency.

O Ali, whatever you spend for yourself, you will surely find it saved (for you) with God.

O Ali, show good mannerism to your folks, neighbors, associates, and friends, so that God will record the highest grades for you.

O Ali, you should dislike for others whatever you dislike for yourself and like for them whatever you like for yourself. This will make you a just arbitrator and a fair judge. Furthermore, the inhabitants of the heavens will favor you and the inhabitants of the earth will love you. You should keep my commandments, inshallah[16] .

Maxims and Words of Wisdom of the Prophet

The following is only a part of a long narrative and many questions that a monk, named Shimon bin Lawi bin Yahuda, had asked the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) who answered all the question in spite of their too numerous number. On that account, the monk believed and gave full credit to the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family). We, here, refer to some of these questions.

The monk asked: Tell me about the intellect. What and how is it, and what originates and what does not originate form it? Describe all of its parts in detail.

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:

The intellect is a barrier against ignorance. The soul is the like of the most malicious animal. It will surely be confused if it is not controlled. The intellect is a barrier against ignorance. When God created the intellect, He said to him: “Approach (by Me).” The intellect approached. God said: “Go away.” The intellect went away. Then, God the Blessed the Elevated said: “By My glory and loftiness I swear, I have never created anything that is greater and more obedient than you are. By you, I will begin and repeat. The reward will be for you and the punishment will fall on you.”

Clemency was ramified from the intellect. Knowledge was ramified from clemency. Reason was ramified from knowledge. Chastity was ramified from reason. Self-respect was ramified from chastity. Pudency was ramified from self-respect. Sedateness was ramified from pudency. Persistence in goodwill was ramified from sedateness. Antipathy for evil was ramified from persistence in goodwill. Listening to the advice was ramified from the antipathy for evil. These were ten categories of good. Each of them has ten types.

The branches of clemency that the intellect originates are taking in the favor, associating with the pious ones, rising from humility and meanness, stimulating the good, approaching to the noble ranks, pardon, respite, good turn, and silence.

The branches of knowledge are richness despite poverty, generosity despite niggardliness, dignity despite weakness, safety despite illness, closeness despite distance, shyness despite boasting, elevation despite humility, honor despite lowliness, wisdom, and high rank. These are the branches of knowledge that the intellect originates. Blessed are those who possess minds and knowledge.

The branches of reason are straightness, guidance, piety, God-fearing, obtainment, temperance, economy, generosity, and acquaintance with God’s religion. The intelligent gain these things through reason. Blessed are those who adhere to reason through their courses.

The branches of chastity are contentment, modesty, abundance, rest, consideration, reverence, remembrance, pondering, generosity, and liberality. The intelligent obtain these matters due to chastity, as they are satisfied with God and the fates.

The branches of self-respect are righteousness, modesty, piety, turning to God, understanding, good manners, charity, friendliness, virtue, and courtesy. The intelligent obtain these matters due to self-respect. Blessed are those whose Master (God) endow them with self-respect.

The branches of pudency are leniency, kindness, regarding God secretly and openly, safety, avoiding the evil, happy mien, clemency, victory, and the good reputation. The intelligent obtain these matters due to shyness. Blessed are those who accept God’s advice and fear His scandal.

The branches of sedateness are gentleness, firmness, the fulfillment of the trusts, leaving treachery, true-telling, chasteness, gaining legal fortunes, readying for the enemy, forbidding the evil, and avoiding foolishness. The intelligent gain these matters due to sedateness. Blessed are the serious who do not show any levity or ignorance and who pardon and forgive.

The branches of persistence in goodwill are avoiding the adultery, going away from recklessness, refraining from ill matters, conviction, the love of salvation, obeying the Beneficent, glorifying the proof, evading the Shaitan, responding to the justice, and saying the right. The intelligent gain these matters through the persistence in goodwill. Blessed are those who permanently mention the coming and the resurrection and learn from the demise.

The branches of antipathy for evil are gravity, patience, victory, straightness on the course, persistence in reason, believing in God, keeping the sacred matters, sincerity, leaving the unconcerned, and keeping the useful affairs. The intelligent gain these matters through the antipathy for evil. Blessed are those who constitute God’s right and cling to the handles of His path.

The branches of listening to the advice are the increasing of the reason, perfection of the mind, good results, salvation from meanness, consent, cordiality, ease, fairness, advancement in the affairs, and the ability of obeying God. Blessed are those who save themselves from the traps of fancies. These were the branches of the intellect.

Shimon said: Tell me about the marks of the ignorant.

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) replied:

The ignorant is that who hurts you when you accompany him, reviles at you if you leave him, binds you with his favors if he gives you something and shows ingratitude if he is given something, betrays if you tell him a secret, and accuses you (of divulging his secrets) if he tells you a secret. He becomes ungrateful, coarse, and rude if he is rich, denies God’s graces openly if he is poor, exceeds the limits if he is happy, despairs if he is sad, guffaws if he laughs, and lows if he weeps. The ignorant reviles at the pious ones. He neither loves nor regards God. He is neither ashamed of God nor does he remember Him. He will praise you excessively if you please him; otherwise he will cancel the praising and accuse you of things that you do not have. This is the habit of the ignorant.

Shimon asked: What about the mark of Islam?

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) answered:

The marks of Islam are faith, knowledge, and work.

Shimon asked: What are the marks of faith, knowledge, and work?

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) replied:

The marks of faith are four: they are the declaration of God’s oneness, believing in Him, believing in His Books, and believing in His apostles.

The marks of knowledge are four: they are having knowledge of God, having knowledge of His disciples, having knowledge of the duties, and keeping on performing them.

The marks of work are the prayer, the fasting, the almsgiving, and the sincerity.

Shimon asked: What about the marks of the honest, the faithful believer, the patient, the repentant, the thankful, the submissive, the virtuous, the adviser, the certain, the sincere, the abstinent, the pious, the God-fearing, the hurtful, the unjust, the ostentatious, the hypocrite, the envious, the spendthrift, the inadvertent, the traitor, the indolent, the liar, and the dissolute?

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:

The marks of the honest are four: they are truthfulness, believing in God’s promise and threat, fulfillment of the pledge, and the avoidance of cheating.

The marks of the (faithful) believer are kindness, understanding, and shyness.

The marks of the patient are four: they are steadfastness against misfortunes, determination in the good deeds, modesty, and clemency.

The marks of the repentant are four: they are offering advices for God’s sake, abandonment of the wrong, adherence to the right, and care for charity.

The marks of the thankful are four: they are showing gratitude for the graces, steadfastness against misfortunes, satisfaction with acts of God, and glorifying and praising no one but God.

The marks of the submissive are four: they are considering God exclusively in hidden and open situations, opting for the good, pondering over the Day of Resurrection, and confiding to God (secretly).

The marks of the virtuous are four: they are to purify the heart and enhance the (good) deeds and the earnings as well as all the affairs.

The marks of the sincere are four: he judges fairly, submits to the right, likes for people whatever he likes for himself, and never oppresses anyone.

The marks of the certain are six: he believes in God after he has been certain of His existence, bewares of death after he has been certain of its falling, fears the scandal after he has been certain of the Day of Resurrection, longs for Paradise after he has been certain of its inevitable coming, strives hard for avoiding Hell after he has been certain of its existence, and settles an account with himself after he has been certain of the Final Judgment.

The marks of the sincere are four: his heart is sound, his organs are sound, he offers goodness limitlessly, and saves everybody from his evil.

The marks of the abstinent are ten: he abstains from the prohibited matters, saves everybody from his evil, performs obligatory duties of his Lord, obeys properly if he is a slave, manages properly if he is a master, bears neither zealotry nor malice, treats kindly those who mistreated him, benefits those who injured him, pardons those who wronged him, and behaves modestly for God’s right.

The marks of the pious are ten. He loves, hates, associates, departs, riles, pleases, acts, urges, and submits - all for the sake of God. He is always fearful, scared, pure, faithful, responsive, and careful. He, finally, is charitable for the sake of God.

The marks of the God-fearing are six: he fears God and cares for His reprimand; he begins and ends his day as if he can see God before him; he is not interested in the worldly pleasures and he cares for nothing because of his high traits.

The marks of the false believer are four: he intrudes in matters that do not concern him, disputes those who are higher than him, seeks what he cannot gain, and engages himself in matters that do not benefit him.

The marks of the unjust ones are four: he uses acts of disobedience (to God) in order to wrong those who are higher than he is, uses his prevalence in order to control those who are lower than he is, hates the right, and extends injustice.[17]

The marks of the showy are four: he works hard if someone watches him and becomes lazy when he is alone; he seeks for others’ praise in every activity he does and uses denial (of every unanimous matter) to be distinguished.

The marks of the hypocrites are four: his reality is corrupted; his tongue (wording) is contrary to his heart (intention); his saying is contrary to his deed; his interior is contrary to his appearance. Woe to the hypocrite who will definitely suffer the fire of Hell.

The marks of the envious are four: they are backbiting, adulation, and schadenfreude.[18]

The marks of the spendthrift are four: they take pride in false matters, consume that which they do not possess, abstain from doing favors, and deny whatever does not benefit them.

The marks of the inadvertent are four: they are blindness, inattentiveness, negligence, and oblivion.

The marks of the indolent are four: he slackens until he neglects, neglects until he wastes, wastes until he feels sick, and feels sick until he commits sins.

The marks of the liar are four: he neither says a truth nor trusts others; he sows dissentions between people and slanders.

The marks of the sinful are four: they are negligence, nonsense, hostility, and defamation.

The marks of the traitor are four: they are to commit acts of disobedience to the Beneficent, annoy the neighbors, hate the matches, and approach the tyrannical (ones).

Shimon said: Surely, you have cured and opened my eyes. Please, lead me to courses through which I may be guided.

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) instructed:

You have enemies who chase and fight you for seizing your religion. They are human beings and jinn. The human enemies are those people who will be insignificant in the world to come and do not desire for the gifts of God. They only care for finding faults with people. They neither find faults with themselves nor care for their evildoings. They will envy and accuse of showing off if they notice a virtuous man. They will criticize if they notice a sinful man.

The jinni enemies are Eblis and his party. If he comes and tells you that your son has died (so as to make you lose your self-possession and show dissatisfaction to God), you should answer: “the alive are created to die. It is my pleasure that a part of me will be in Paradise.”

If he comes to you and tell you that your fortune has been lost, you should say: “Praise be to God Who gave and took, and saved me from (defraying) the zakat.”

If he comes to you and says that people are wronging you while you treat them kindly, you should say: “On the Day of Resurrection, the claim will be upon those who wrong others. The charitable ones will not be interrogated.”

If he comes to you and shows the admiration of your charity, so as to cause you feel proud of your good-doing, you should say: “My evildoings are more numerous than my good-doings.”

If he comes to you to show his admiration of your prayers, you should say: “My carelessness (toward the duties of God) covers my prayers.”

If he comes to you and shows his admiration of your almsgiving, you should say: “I take more than what I give.”

If he comes to you and tells that many are those who wronged you, you should say: “I wronged a bigger number of people.”

If he comes to you and shows his admiration of your deeds, you should answer: “I have disobeyed in many situations.”

If he comes to you and orders you to consume wine, you should answer: “I do not commit sins.”

If he comes to you and asks you to love the pleasures of this world, you should say: “I do not love them after the world had deceived many others.”

O Shimon, associate with the pious ones and follow the prophets - Jacob, Joseph, and David. When God the Blessed the Elevated created the lower world, it took pride, cheered, and said, “Nothing will overcome me.” Thus, God created the earth to be on its back. Therefore, the lower world submitted. The earth, then, felt proud, and said, “Nothing will overcome me.” Hence, God created the mountains and fixed them on the back of the earth so that it would not swing. Thus, the earth submitted and settled. The mountains, then, were proud. They towered and said, “Nothing will overcome us.” Hence, God created the iron to cut the mountains. Thus, they submitted. Then the iron said proudly, “Nothing will overcome me.” Hence, God created fire to dissolve the iron. The fire gasped and said proudly, “Nothing will overcome me.” Therefore, God created water to extinguish the fire. The water, then, said proudly, “Nothing will overcome me.” Hence, God created the wind that moved the waves of water and aroused what is lying in its depths and stopped it from flowing. The water submitted, and the wind blew and said proudly, “Nothing will overcome me.” Hence, God created man to build what prevents and stops the wind. Thus, the wind submitted. Man then exceeded the bounds and said tyrannically, “Nothing is more powerful than I am.” Hence, God created death, and man submitted. Then death took pride, but Almighty God said, “Never take pride at yourself. I will slaughter you between the two parties; people of Paradise and people of Hell. I will not revive you forever.” Hence, death feared.

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) then said:

Clemency overcomes anger, mercy overcomes dissatisfaction, and almsgiving overcomes the sin.

The Commandment of the Prophet for Me’aath bin Jabal when he assigned him as the governor of Yemen

O Me’aath, teach them the Book of God and the high traits. Treat each according to his rank, whether good or evil. Carry out God’s orders regarding them and never be negligent in this regard. Do not favor anyone in the questions regarding (the fair distribution of) the estates of God. They are not yours or your concern. Fulfill their trusts disregarding how big or small they are. Show clemency and pardon on condition that you will not neglect the right. The ignorant may say that you have neglected the right of God. Offer apologies in every act in which you expect a fault would fall, so that people will acquit you (of negligence). Deaden the pre-Islamic customs except those that Islam ordained.

Show the whole affairs of Islam, whether small or big. The prayer should be the most important matter that you care for, because it is the head of Islam after the confession of the religion. Remind people of God and the life to come. Pursue the admonitions because they are the most affective in the field of urging (people) doing actions that God favors. Distribute the educated ones among people. Worship God to Whom you will be taken and do not care for any blame in doing matters that He pleases.

I command you to fear God, say the truth, fulfill the pledges, give the deposits back to their possessors, avoid treason, show lenient wording, begin in greeting people, regard the neighbors, compassionate the orphans, work hard, neglect hopes, long for the life to come, worry about the Final Judgment, adhere to the faith, learn the Quran, suppress your rage, and behave with humility.

Beware of reviling at any Muslim, complying with any sinful, disobeying any just leader, belying any truthful, and believing any liar. Mention your Lord in any situation and show repentance whenever you commit any sin. Show secret repentance for the secret sins and open repentance for the open sins.

O Me’aath, I will shorten my commandments if I am certain we will not meat each other until the Day of Resurrection, but I see we will not meet ever again. Surely, the most favorable of you to me is that who will meet me while he bears the same beliefs and qualities on which I left him.

Some Words of the Prophet

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) sermonized:

Everything has its honor, and the honor of sessions is that in which the direction of Kiblah is taken. He who wants to be the mightiest of people should fear God, he who wants to be the most powerful of people should depend upon God, and he who wants to be the wealthiest of people should trust in what is in God’s hand more than what is in his hand.

May I inform of the evilest of people?

The attendants said: “Yes, you may, God’s Messenger.” He (peace be upon him and his family) said:

The evilest of people are those who live alone, whose charity does not reach people, and who whip their servants. May I inform you of the people that are eviler than the previous?

The attendants said: “Yes, you may, God’s Messenger.” He (peace be upon him and his family) said:

The people that are eviler than the previous are those whose favor is not expected and whose evil is not secured. May I inform you of the people that are eviler than the previous?

The attendants said: “Yes, you may, God’s Messenger.” He (peace be upon him and his family) said:

The people that are eviler than the previous are those who dislike people and people dislike them.

Once, Jesus (peace be upon him) orated before the Israelites. He said:

“O children of Israel, do not speak words of wisdom before the ignorant so that you will not wrong these words. Do not prevent the wise people from receiving the wisdom lest, you will wrong those people. Do not reward the unjust ones otherwise, your favors will be null.

O children of Israel, matters must be one of three: a clearly right matter that you should follow, a clearly wrong matter that you should avoid, or a confused matter that you should commend to God.”

O people, you have definite marks and identified ends: therefore, you should stop at your marks and reach at only your ends. A faithful believer should live between two points of fear: one is his past deeds that he ignores what God will do about them and the second is the remaining life that he ignores what God has arranged for it. The servant (of God) should take from himself for himself, his worldly life for his life to come, his youth for his old age, and his life for his death. By the Prevailing of my soul I take the oath, no blame will be after death. Except for Paradise and Hell, no abode will be there after this worldly life.

The Prophet’s Reference to Knowledge, Intellect, and Ignorance

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) instructed:

Learn the knowledge, for to learn it is an advantage, to study it is (a feature of) glorification of God, to search for it is (a sort of) jihad, to teach it (to the ignorant ones) is charity, to instruct it freely is a pious act because it is the sign of the halal and haram.[19] It leads its seekers to Paradise, entertains in loneliness, and associates in estrangement. It is a guide in joy, a weapon against the enemies, and the beauty of the friends. By knowledge, God raises some people to make them the guides to goodness to the degree that their conducts are taken as examples and their practices as lessons and the angels desire for befriending them. Knowledge is the life of the hearts and the light of the sights. It is the power of the weak bodies. God takes the bearers of knowledge to the ranks of the beloved ones and grants them the association with the virtuous one in this world and the life to come.

Through knowledge, God is obeyed, worshipped, acknowledged, and confessed of His being One. Through knowledge, likewise, relations are regarded and halal and haram are realized. Knowledge is the leader of the intellect.

God grants the intellect to the happy ones and deprives the unhappy of it. The character of the intelligent is that he overlooks the ignorant, pardons the wrongdoers, behaves modestly with the lower-rank ones, and competes with the higher-rank ones for seeking charity. The intelligent thinks before he utters: he will win when he speaks good wording and will be saved when he abstains from speaking evil. He clings to God firmly when he has to encounter a seditious matter; therefore, he stops his hand (deeds) and tongue (words). He hurries to the virtue wherever he notices it. He never leaves shyness and never shows acquisitiveness. These ten characters distinguish the intelligent.

The ignorant wrongs his who associates with him, oppresses him who is less than he is, and attacks (wrongly) him who is higher than he is. He utters without thinking in what he says. He commits sins whenever he speaks and forgets when he keeps silent. He hurries to every seditious matter that would certainly befall him and neglects and slows down for the virtue. He does not care for the past sins and does not refrain from committing new ones. He slows down from doing charitable acts. He does not care for what passed and what he had lost. These ten characters distinguish the ignorant.

An Advice

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:

Why do I notice that the fondness of this world has overcome most of people as if death has been afflicted to other than them and the right in this world has been ordained on other than them? You are not eternal after those whose news of death reach you and you are just like traveling people who will soon return home. You have put the dead ones in their graves and seized their heritage. Do you think you will be eternal after them? Too far it is! Too far it is! Will the present not learn a lesson from the past? They ignored and forgot every lesson in God’s Book and trusted the evil of every bad result. They did not expect the falling of a catastrophe or misfortune.

Blessed are those whose fear of God engages them from fearing people.

Blessed are those whose earnings are acceptable, inner and outer selves are sound, and morals are straight.

Blessed are those who give the surplus of their money as alms and prevent the surplus of their speech.

Blessed are those who behave modestly for God’s sake, renounce the worldly pleasures without refusing my Sunnah[20] , refuse the delight of this world without the desire for ignoring my practices, follow my pious progeny after me, associate with the people of knowledge and wisdom, and treat the poor kindly.

Blessed are those who earn money from the believers without need to act disobediently to God, spend it in fields that do not cause acting disobediently to God, give it to the poor, and leave the proud, the arrogant, the greedy, the heresiarch, and the changers of my Sunnah.

Blessed are those who treat people with good mannerism, provide support, and save them from evil.

The Prophet’s Sermon of the Farewell Pilgrimage[21]

In the Farewell Pilgrimage, The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) sermonized:

All praise is due to God. We praise Him, seek His aid and forgiveness, and repent to Him. We seek His guard against the evils of our wrongdoings and ourselves. No one will be able to deviate those whom God guides and no one will be able to guide those whom God causes to deviate. I declare there is no god but Allah exclusively without any associate, and declare that Mohammed is His servant and messenger.

O slaves of God, I command you to adhere to God-fearing and urge you obeying Him. I begin with God Who is the source of every good.

O people, listen to what I will show to you. I do not know whether I will meet you the next year in this situation or not.

O people, your souls and honors are as sanctified as this day in this country among you up to the day on which you will meet your Lord. Have I conveyed? O Allah, Be the witness.

He whom is trusted with a deposit should fulfill his trust. The usury of the pre-Islamic age is revoked. The first usury that I will revoke is Al-Abbas bin Abdil-Muttelib’s.

The revenge of the pre-Islamic age is revoked. The first revenge that I will revoke is the Aamir bin Rabi’a bin Al-Harith bin Abdil-Muttelib’s.

The whole traditions of the pre-Islamic age are canceled except the custody - of the Holy House of God- and the watering (of the pilgrims).

Retaliation is the judge of the premeditated murder. The ruling of quasi-murder, such as those whom are killed by a stick or a stone unintentionally, is a one hundred camels - to be paid as blood money-. Any additional number is a part of the pre-Islamic practices.

O people, the Shaitan despaired of being obeyed on this land, but he accepted to be obeyed through your insignificant evildoings.

O people, “Postponing (of the sacred month) is only an addition in unbelief, wherewith those who disbelieve are led astray, violating it one year and keeping it sacred another, that they may agree in the number (of months) that Allah has made sacred. ”[22] The time has rotated as same as the day on which God created the heavens and the earth. “Surely the number of months with Allah is twelve months in Allah's ordinance since the day when He created the heavens and the earth, of these four being sacred ; ”[23] three are consecutive and one is odd. They are Dhu’l-Qa’da, Dhu’l-Hijja, Muharram, and Rajab, which falls between Jumada and Shaban. Have I conveyed? O Allah, Be the witness.

O people, your women enjoy obligations that are imposed upon you, and you enjoy obligations that are imposed upon them.

The obligations that are imposed upon them are that they should never take anybody to your beds, should never let anybody that you hate enter your houses before they take your permission, and should never commit any evildoing. If they do so, God has permitted you to prevent them, leave them alone in the sleeping-places, and beat them, but not so harmfully. If they desist and obey you, you should assume their livelihood and clothing adequately. You have taken them by the trust of God and they have been lawful to you by the Book of God. Therefore, fear God in the questions regarding women and advise each other for their good.

O people, “the believers are each others’ brothers. ”[24] It is illicit for anyone to behave in (someone’s) money before he obtains the owner’s permission. Have I conveyed? O Allah, be the witness.

After me, do not return to atheism by killing each other. I have left among you what will protect you against deviation if you only adhere to. It is the Book of God and my family - my household. O Allah, be the witness.

O people, your Lord is one and your father is one. You all are from Adam and Adam was created from dust. “The best of you to Allah is the most God - fearing. ”[25] Except by means of God-fearing, no Arab person is preferred to a non-Arab. Have I conveyed? The witness must convey this to the absent.

O people, God has constituted the share of every heir. It is illicit for any testator to will more than one third of the estate. The baby is for the owner of the bed, and the share of the prostitute is the stone. The curse of God, the angels, and all of people be upon those whoever claim of being the sons of other than their fathers and those who claim of being the subjects of other than their masters.[26] God will not accept from such individuals any excuse or compensation.

Peace and God’s mercy and blessings be upon you.

Short Maxims of the Prophet

1- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Death is a sufficient admonisher, God-fearing is a sufficient wealth, worship is a sufficient occupation, the Day of Resurrection is a sufficient appointment and God is a sufficient Rewarder.

2- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
To believing in God and to benefit His servants are the highest two characters of piety. Polytheism and injuring the servants are the evilest characters.

3- As a man asked for words by which God may benefit him, the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Remember death repeatedly. This will save you from longing for the worldly pleasures. Show gratitude frequently and this will increase the graces upon you. Pray to God so recurrently, because you do not know in which time God will respond for your prayer. Beware of tyranny, for God has ordained that He will support those whom are oppressed. He said:
O men, your rebellion is against your own souls. [27]
Beware of the evil plans, for God has ordained:
The evil plans shall not beset any save the authors of it. [28]

4- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
You will care excessively for (positions of) power. Then it will be an affliction upon you and regret for you. How well is the wet nurse, and how bad is the weaner![29]

5- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Any people who commend their affairs to a woman will never see prosperity.

6- The Prophet was asked about the best friends. He (peace be upon him and his family) answered:
The best friends are those who help you when you mention (a matter) and remind you when you forget. He then was asked about the worst people. He (peace be upon him and his family) answered:
The worst people are the scholars when they commit sins.

7- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
My Lord commanded me to adhere to nine things: He commanded me to be sincere in hidden and open situations, just in (situations of) satisfaction and anger, temperate in poverty and richness, pardon him who wronged me, give him who deprived me (of his bestowals), regard him who ruptured relations with me, ponder over things while I am silent, mention Him whenever I utter, and learn lessons from things that I see.

8- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Retain the knowledge by recording.

9- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Catastrophes should be expected when the sinful become masters, the masters become the humblest, and the sinful ones are respected.

10- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Speedy walking removes the beauty of the believers.

11- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The one who was exposed to a theft will insist on accusing innocent people to the degree that his sin becomes greater than the thief is.

12- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
God surely loves him who performs His duties munificently.

13- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
If your leaders are the best of you, the wealthy are the kindest of you, and your affairs are subject to consultation, then the surface of the earth is better for you than its interior. But if your leaders are the evilest of you, the wealthy are the most niggardly of you, and your affairs become in the hands of your women, then the interior of the earth is better for you than its surface.

14- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The grace of this world is perfect for those who begin and end their day while enjoying three matters: a healthy body, a safe course, and a secured maintenance. The graces of this world and the world to come are complete for those who enjoy an additional matter. It is the faith.

15- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Be kind to the noble who suffers humility (after his nobility), the wealthy who loses (his wealth), and the knowledgeable who becomes in the hands of ignorant people.

16- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Most people are examined in two characters. They are good health and peace of mind.

17- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Hearts are molded on cherishing those who treat them charitably and abhorring those who treat them nastily.

18- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
We, the prophets, are ordered to associate with people according to their understandings.

19- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Cursed be him who imposes his burdens on others.

20- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Worship is of seven parts, the best of which is seeking legal earnings.

21- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
God does not force anyone to obey Him. To disobey Him does not mean that He is overcome. He does not neglect the servants who possessed. He controls what He has granted to them and possesses what he has given them in possession. Nothing will oppose or preclude His obedience if the servants order each other to cling to it. He is able to prevent the servants from disobeying Him. This does not mean that He drags them to the acts of disobedience to him.

22- As his son Ibrahim was dying, the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
We will surely grieve for you, Ibrahim. But the late is the introductory of the present and the last will definitely catch up with the first.
Then, he (peace be upon him and his family) shed tears and said:
The eyes shed tears and the heart grieves, but we will say nothing but what pleases the Lord. We are surely grievous for you, Ibrahim.

23- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Beauty is in the tongue (wording).

24- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Knowledge is not stripped from people, but the knowledgeable individuals are taken. When the knowledgeable ones are no longer existent among people, the ignorant ones, then, will be betaken as leaders and they will issue verdicts ignorantly. Then they will deviate and mislead the others.

25- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Expecting the Relief is the best jihad of my umma.

26- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The morals of us - the family of the prophesy- are pardoning those who wronged us and giving those who deprived us.

27- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The most favorable disciples of my umma to me are the witty that pray considerably and worship the Lord secretly. They are unknown for people as their sustenance is hardly sufficient for them, but they keep up steadfastness until death comes to them. Their heritage is little and their mourners are few.

28- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
God will forgive the sins of every believer because of suffering from any sort of fatigue, pain, grief, or care.

29- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
God will never take care of those who have, dress, and ride whatever they desire, unless they desist.

30- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The like of the believer is the ear: he once falls and once stands erect. The like of the disbeliever is the cedar: he has a steady state that he never feels.

31- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The most examined (by being afflicted by worldly misfortunes so that the Lord will test their faithfulness) people are the prophets followed by their likes. A faithful believer is afflicted according to the degree of his loyalty, believing, and good deed. Those who enjoy a true faith and good deeds will be intensively afflicted, while those who bear insignificant faith and commit evildoings are afflicted trivially.

32- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
God will not give any atheist or hypocrite anything of this world if it equals for Him the amount of a mosquito’s wing.

33- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The world rotates. Your share will reach you even if you are weak, and the misfortune will reach you even if you are so powerful. He who despairs of what has passed him will enjoy a restful body. He who satisfies himself with that which God has decided for him will have a delightful eye.

34- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
By God I swear, I have told you and warned you against any deed that takes you to Hell and urged taking in all of the deeds that take you to Paradise. The Faithful Spirit inspired to me that no soul will expire before it completes its earnings. Slow down in seeking earnings. The slow of the earnings should never make you seek God’s sustenance through acts of disobedience to God. The only way of obtaining God’s sustenance is to act obediently to Him.

35- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Allah hates two sounds. They are the noise of mourning when a misfortune falls and the sound of a pipe when a blessing falls.

36- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Cheep prices and just rulers are signs of God’s satisfaction with His servants. Unjust rulers and expensive prices are signs of His dissatisfaction with the servants.

37- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
He who enjoys four characters will be lying in the grandest illumination of God: to depend upon the declaration that there is no god but Allah and Mohammed is being His messenger in all affairs, to say, ‘We are surely Allah’s and to Him we shall return’[30] in misfortunes, say, ‘All praise be to Allah’[31] in situations of welfare, and say, ‘I seek the forgiveness of God and to Him I repent’[32] in situations of committing sins.

38- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
He who is given four things will not be deprived of four others: he who is granted seeking the forgiveness of God will not be deprived of being pardoned; he who is granted thankfulness will not be deprived of increase; he who is granted repentance will not be deprived of acceptance; he who is granted supplication to God will not be deprived of response.

39- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Knowledge is kept in stores the keys of which is questioning. Ask as much as possible, God compassionate you. The reward of asking is recorded for four; the asker, the speaker, the listener, and the favorer.

40- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Ask the scholars, speak with the wise, and sit with the poor.

41- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
I prefer the merits of knowledge to those of worship. Piety is the best of your religion.

42- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The angels of the heavens and the earth curse those who issue verdicts baselessly.

43- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The reward is obtained according to the volume of the examination (of God). God will afflict (hardship) upon those whom He loves. God’s satisfaction is gained only by those whose hearts are content, while His dissatisfaction is the share of those whose hearts are dissatisfied.

44- A man came to the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) and said: “O God’s Messenger, instruct me.” He said:
Never associate anyone (or anything) with God, even if you suffer burning or harsh torture, except in case that your heart is full of faith. Obey and treat your parents kindly whether they are alive or dead. You should carry out even if they order you to leave your family and fortune, for this is a part of faith. Never neglect an obligatory prayer intentionally. The custody of God does not include those who neglect an obligatory prayer intentionally. Beware of consuming wine or any intoxicant, for they are the keys to every evil.

45- A man from Bani -the tribe of- Tamim named Abu Umaya came to the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) and asked: “O Mohammed, to what are you soliciting people?” The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) answered:
“I call to Allah. I and those who follow me being certain. ” [33] I call to Him who relieves your injury if you supplicate to Him, supports when any anguished one seeks His help, and richens when any poor implores to Him.
The man then asked for instructions, the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Never be angry.
The man asked for more, and the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Please people in the same way you want them to please you.
The man asked for more, and the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Never revile at people so that they will not be your enemies.
The man asked for more, and the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Never slow down in doing favors to the deservers.
The man asked for more, and the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
People will surely love you if you love them.
The man asked for more, and the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Meet your friend with a smiling face. Never feel bored. Boringness deprives you of the welfare of this world and the next world. Make your dress cover the half of your leg. Beware of loosing the buttons and the shirts, for that is a fashion of conceit. God does not like conceit.

46- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
God dislikes the old man that commits adultery, the rich man that wrongs others, the proud poor man, and the insistent beggar. God, likewise, revokes the rewards of the giver who always reminds others of what he has given to them and hates those who spend extravagantly, the shameless, and the liars.

47- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
He who pretends of being poor will be poor.

48- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Courtesy with people is the half of faith and leniency with them is the half of livelihood.

49- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
After believing in God, the head of intelligence is courtesy, provided that no right is neglected. Wit is a happy yield.

50- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
After idolatry, the most insistent matter that I have been warned against is the heated argument.

51- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
He who cheats, injures, or deceives a Muslim is not one of our party.

52- In Al-Khaif Mosque, the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) orated:
God give victory to every servant who will listen to my words, comprehend them, and convey to the absent. A recipient of knowledge may benefit by it more than its conveyor. It happens that a conveyor of knowledge is uneducated. A Muslim’s heart should never cheat in these three matters: they are working sincerely for the sake of God, bearing goodwill for the imams of the Muslims, and clinging to their party. The believers are brothers of equal souls. They should be one hand against their enemies. The high-class Muslims should respect the pledge of the lower class ones.

53- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
When a Muslim deals with a Dhimmi,[34] he should say, “O Allah, precede my good to his.” But when he deals with another Muslim, he should say, “O Allah, precede the good of both of us.”

54- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
God bless the servant who speaks out good wording to gain (the reward) or withholds his bad wording to be saved.

55- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The characters of faith are complete for those who enjoy three characters: those whose satisfaction does not lead them to the wrong, whose displeasure does not take them out of the right, and whose ability does not lead them to seize what is not theirs.

56- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
He who attains any bound unrightfully is one of the aggressors.

57- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
To r ecite (some of) the Quran during the prayers is preferred to be recited in other situations. To mention God is preferred to almsgiving. Almsgiving is preferred to fasting. Fasting is a good advantage.
The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) then added:
No word is accepted unless it is applied practically. No word and no deed (are accepted) without intention. No word, no deed, and no intention without meeting the Sunnah.

58- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The source of deliberateness is God and the source of hastiness is the Shaitan.

59- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
As for those who learns (knowledge) for the purpose of disputing with the foolish ones, vying proudly with the scholars, or attracting people’s attentions so that they will deify them, they should find themselves a place in Hell. Leadership is not fit except for God and the proper people (of leadership). God hates them who put themselves in other than the places that God decides for them. Likewise, He will not take care of those who claim of being leaders of people until they retract or repent to Him.

60- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Jesus, son of Merriam (peace be upon them), said to the disciples: “Show affection to God and curry favor with Him.” “How can we do so?” asked they. “By detesting those who commit acts of disobedience to Him,” he taught, and added, “Seek God’s satisfaction through bearing malice toward them who disobey Him.” “Whom should we associate, then?” asked they. He instructed, “Associate with those whose appearances remind you of God, whose speech increases your good deeds, and whose deeds make you desirous for the life to come.”

61- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The obscene, the niggardly, and the vulgar are the remotest from my morals.

62- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Misbehavior is evil omen.

63- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
A man who does not care for his speech or for what is said to him is surely a bastard or a devil.

64- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
For every obscene,indecent, and shameless individual who does not care for his speech or for what is said to him, God has banned them from being in Paradise. If you search for the family of such individuals, you will find them bastards or semi-sons of devils.
“O God’s Messenger,” some asked, “Are there devils among people?” The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) answered them:
There are devils among people. Listen to God’s saying (as an address to the Shaitan):
…And share with them in wealth and children. [35]

65- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
He whom you help will help you. He who does not choose patience for encountering the misfortunes will fail. People will surely defame those who defame them. They, however, will not leave alone those who leave them alone.
“What should we do in this case, God’s Messenger?” asked the attendants. The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) answered:
You should save them for your times of poverty.

66- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
May I lead you to the best moralities of this world and the life to come? These moralities are to regard him who disregarded you, give him who deprived you (of his bestowals), and pardon him who wronged you.

67- One day, the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) went out and saw some people trying to roll a rock (as a competition of power). He (peace be upon him and his family) commented:
The most powerful of you are those who possess themselves in situations of rage and the true champions are those who pardon (others’ faults) when they become more prevalent.

68- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
God says: I have accepted this religion for Myself. Except generosity and good manners, nothing will raise it. You should honor the religion by these two traits as long as you accompany it.

69- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The most faithful of you are the most well-mannered.

70- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
High manners elevate (those who embrace them) to the rank of the fasting people who pass their nights with worship.
“What is the best gift that the servants obtained?” The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) was asked. He answered:
The high mannerism is the best gift that the servants (of God) ever obtained.

71- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The high mannerism achieves cordiality.

72- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Happy mien removes malice.

73- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The best of you are the most well-mannered ones who go on intimate terms with people and people go on intimate terms with them.

74- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Hands are three; the begging hand, the giving hand, and the grasping hand. The best of hands is the giving hand.

75- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Pudency is of two categories; pudency of intelligence and pudency of idiocy. Knowledge is the pudency of intelligence, and ignorance is the pudency of idiocy.

76- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Backbiting is licit against those who strip the dress of pudency.

77- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
He who believes in God and the Day of Resurrection should fulfill the promise.

78- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Keeping others’ deposits brings sustenance and breach of trusts brings poverty.

79- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Sons’ affectionate look at their parents is a sort of worship.

80- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The most catastrophic situations are to be decapitated compulsorily, to be captured by the enemies, and to find a man laying on one’s wife.

81- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Knowledge is the comrade of the believer, clemency is his supporter, intelligence is his guide, patience is the commander of his army, lenience is his father, and charity is his brother. Adam is his lineage and God-fearing is his ancestry. The seeking for legal earning is the personality.

82- As a man served the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) with milk and honey together, he said:
It is enough to have only one of these two drinks. I neither drink them both nor ban them. I behave modestly before God, for He will honor him who behaves modestly before Him, humiliate him who behaves arrogantly, grant earnings to the moderate, and will impoverish the wasters. Finally, God will reward those who mention him frequently.

83- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The nearest to me on the Day of Resurrection will be the most honest, the most faithful for the trusts, the most well-mannered, and the closest to people.

84- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The Divine Throne shakes and the Lord becomes irate whenever a sinful (individual) is praised.

85- “What is prudence?” a man asked Prophet (peace be upon him and his family), who answered:
Prudence is to obey the wise man after you seek his counsel.

86- One day, the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) asked, “O people, which individuals do you regard as heirless?” They answered, “Those who die without leaving any descendant are the heirless.” The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The true heirless is that who dies before he dedicates one of his sons - no matter how many they are- to the course of God.
He then asked, “O people, which individuals do you regard as pauper?” They answered, “Those who do not possess any fortune are the paupers.” The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The true pauper is that who does not provide anything of his wealth - no matter how big it is- for the sake of God.
He then asked, “O people, which individuals do you regard as strong?” They answered, “Those who are too physically powerful to be overcome are the strong ones.” The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The true strong one is that whose self-possession dominates his wrath that the Shaitan plants in his heart.

87- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
He who acts ignorantly thwarts more than doing well.

88- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Sitting in a mosque in waiting for the prayer is a sort of worship unless a matter is committed?
“What is that matter, God’s Messenger?” asked the attendants. The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) answered:
That matter is backbiting.

89- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The fasting person is in state of worship even if he is sleeping in bed unless he commits backbiting.

90- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
He who publicizes an evildoing is (regarded) as same as the originator (of that evildoing). A man who imputes dishonor to a Muslim for a matter will not die before that matter is stuck to him.

91- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Three categories will wrong you if you do not wrong them: they are the lows, the wife, and the servant.

92- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Solidity of the eye, hardheartedness, excessive acquisitiveness, and insistence on committing a sin are signs of unhappiness.

93- As a man asked for instructions, the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Never be angry.
As the man asked for more, the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) repeated:
Never be angry.
The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) then added:
The true powerful man is not that who throws others down. It is that who possess himself in (states of) rage.

94- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The most complete believer is the most well-mannered.

95- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Kindness gives embellishment to everything it joins, and clumsiness ruins everything it joins.

96- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The well clothing expresses richness. Treating the servants kindly suppresses the enemy.

97- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
I have been ordered (by God) to deal with people courteously in the same degree of emphasis on delivering the Divine Message.

98- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Seek the means of concealment for settling your affairs. Envy chases every grace.

99- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Faith is two halves; one half is lying in patience and the other in thankfulness.

100- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The proper fulfillment of the pledges is a part of faith.

101- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Eating in marts is lowness.

102- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
All the needs are in God’s hand while their means are in people’s. Seek the needs from God through people. You should be patient in praying to God to settle you needs even if people settle them.

103- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
How strange is the (faithful) believer! Any matter that God imposes upon him, whether good or bad, is for his good. Misfortunes that befall him remit his sins. If God bestows upon him or honors him, this means that He favors him.

104- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
As for those who consider the life to come as their greatest concern all over their times, God will institute feeling of richness in their heart, arrange their affairs, and prolongs their ages until they receive the sustenance that is dedicated to them completely. As for those who consider the attainment of the worldly pleasures as their greatest concern, God will institute poverty between their eyes, disarrange their affairs, and give them nothing more than their limited shares.

105- As a man asked him about the party of his umma, the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The party of my umma is the community of the right, regardless of their little number.

106- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
God will definitely fulfill the promise that He takes, but if He threatens a punishment, He will have the option to do it or not.

107- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) asked:
May I inform of the closest to my mannerism?
“Yes, you man, God’s messenger,” said the attendants. He (peace be upon him and his family) expressed:
The closest to my mannerism are the most well-mannered, the most self-possessed, the kindest to their relatives, and the fairest in situations of rage or situation.

108- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
He who eats and thanks is preferred to him who fasts silently - i.e. does not thank the grace-.

109- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
To cherish a believer for the sake of God is one of the greatest classes of faith. He who loves, hates, gives, and bans - all for the sake of God is surely one of the choices.

110- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
God loves most the servants who benefit others, carry out His right properly, and make people like doing favors.

111- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
You should reward them who do you favors. If you cannot reward them, you should thank. Showing gratitude is a sort of rewarding.

112- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
He who is deprived of kindness is deprived of goodness entirely.

113- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Never dispute or joke with your friend and do not breach your promise to him.

114- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
It is incumbent upon every believer to respect and fulfill the sanctities of the religion, ethics, and food.

115- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The believer is chipper and joker, while the hypocrites are rude and quick-tempered.

116- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Richness is a most excellent help on God-fearing.

117- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Aggression is the quickest in punishment.

118- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The present is of three sorts; a present for rewarding, a present for flattering, and a present for the sake of God.

119- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Blessed are those who leave a current passion for obtaining a promised one that they have not seen yet.

120- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
He who reckons tomorrow with the days of his age misbehaves with death.

121- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
What will you do when your women become corrupt, your youth become sinful, and you neither enjoin good nor forbid evil?
“Will that occur, God’s messenger?” they asked. The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) answered:
This and eviler than it will fall. What will you do when you forbid good and enjoin evil?
“Will that occur, God’s messenger?” they asked. The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) answered:
This and eviler than this will fall. What will you do when you consider the evil as good and the good as evil?

122- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Care not for the evil omen. Do not carry out something that you suspect. Do not oppress when you envy.

123- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
My umma (people) are not blamed for nine things: for situations of the unintentional flaw, oblivion, compulsion, ignorance, intolerability, emergency, envy, evil omen, and the devilish insinuation regarding people unless it is spoken.

124- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
You should not be sad when you can no longer dream. The highly educated ones cannot see visions.

125- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
All my people will be virtuous if two classes of them become virtuous and will be reprobate if these two classes become reprobate: they are the jurists and leaders.

126- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The most intelligent of people are the most fearful of God and the most obedient to Him. The most unintelligent of people are the most fearful of the rulers and the most obedient to them.

127- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
To Sit with three categories of people is to cause your heart to die: they are the lows, women, and the rich.

128- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The signs of the people at whom God is angry but He does not afflict direct agony upon them are: the high cost of their livings, short ages, loss of their business, decay of their fruits, rarity of water in their rivers, rainlessness, and overpowering of the evil ones over them.

129- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
If fornication is widespread after me, sudden death will be common. If people give a deficient measures, God will impose years of drought and shortage upon them. If they desist from defraying the zakat, the blessings of the plants, fruits, and minerals will be stopped. If they rule unfairly, they will support each other on wronging and aggression. If they breach their pledges, God will appoint their enemies as their masters. If they rupture their (mutual) relations, their fortunes will be in the hands of the evilest of them. If they do not enjoin good, forbid evil, or follow the Immaculates (the Imams) of my family, God will appoint the evilest of them as their masters and the prayers of the pious men will not be responded.

130- When the Lord revealed: “ And do not stretch your eyes after that with which We have provided different classes of them, (of) the splendor of this world's life, that We may thereby try them; and the sustenance (given) by your Lord is better and more abiding,” [36] the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
He whosever heart is not full of patience for the sake of God will expire while he bemoans for the worldly affairs. He who stretches the eyes to what is in people’s hands will have a long grief, be dissatisfied with what God has decided for him, and suffer an embittered life. Those who think that God has not bestowed upon them with His graces except in eating and drinking are surely ignorant and ungrateful. Moreover, their efforts are surely nonsense and the punishment is very close to them.

131- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Except Muslims, no one will be in Paradise.
“O God’s messenger,” asked Abu Tharr, “What is Islam?” The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) answered:
Islam is naked, God-fearing is its cover, guidance is its underwear, pudency is its garment, piety is its fashion, religiousness is its perfection, and good deed is its fruit. Everything has a base, and the base of Islam is to cherish us; the Prophet’s family.

132- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Those who try to satisfy a created being by means that cause the Creator’s dissatisfaction, God will set up on them that created being as absolute master.

133- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
God has created some people for settling the others’ needs. They like doing favors and consider generosity as glory. God surely loves the nobilities of character.

134- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
There are some servants (of God) to whom people resort in needs. They will be safe from the agony of God on the Day of Resurrection.

135- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
A (faithful) believer should act upon the moralities that God favors. He should give people when God bestows upon him and withhold when God withholds.

136- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
People will surely live in an age in which a man will not care whether his religious affairs are proper or not as long as his worldly pleasures are satisfactory.

137- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
God has molded the hearts of His creatures on cherishing those who treat them charitably and abhorring those who treat them nastily.

138- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Misfortunes will befall my people if they do fifteen acts.
“O God’s Messenger, ” they asked, “What are these fifteen acts.The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) answered:
If they dedicate the profits to themselves exclusively, betake the deposits as profits, consider the almsgiving as burdens, comply with their wives, become undutiful to their mothers, respect their friends and disobey their fathers, raise their voices (of disputation) in mosques, respect an evil man so as to avoid his evildoing, appoint the lowliest of people as their chiefs, dress silky clothes, consume wines, play on musical instruments, and the present curse the past. When these matters occur, you should then expect three events: the red wind, deformation, and decadency.

139- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
This world is the prison of the believers and the paradise of the disbelievers.

140- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
People will live in an age when they will turn into wolves. He who will not be a wolf will be ravened be wolves.

141- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The most uncommon (two) things in the last age (of time) are a trustworthy friend and a legal-gotten dirham.

142- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Guard yourselves against people through mistrusting them.

143- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The whole welfare is obtained by intelligence only. The mindless have no religion.

144- In the presence of the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family), some people praised a man so commendably that they ascribed to him all the good characters. The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) asked, “How was the intelligence of that man?” They said, “O God’s messenger, we are talking about his distinguishable adoration and charity, and you ask us about his intelligence.” The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) worded:
Due to his idiocy, the foolish may commit sins that are greater than those sins committed by the lewd ones. According to their intelligence, the servants will have higher ranks and be close to their Lord.

145- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
God has divided the intellect into three parts. Those who enjoy these three parts altogether are enjoying perfect minds, while the mindless are those who do not have any of these parts. They are: good acquaintance with God, good obedience to God, and good steadfastness against the acts of God.

146- A Christian man of Najran came to Medina. He enjoyed a noticeable eloquence, gravity, and grandeur; therefore, somebody addressed to the Prophet, “O God’s messenger, how intelligent that man is!” The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) reproached the sayer and said:
The intelligent individuals are only those who confess of the Oneness of God and act upon the obedience to Him.

147- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Knowledge is the intimate friend of the believer, clemency is his supporter, intelligence is his guide, work is his custodian, patience is the commander of his troops, kindness is his father, piety is his brother, Adam is the lineage, God-fearing is the ancestry, and the seeking for legal earning is the personality.

148- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
You must reward the hand of help that is extended to you. Thanks must be introduced if rewarding is impossible. If thank is also neglected, then it is surely ingratitude.

149- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Shake hands with each other, for it removes malice.

150- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
A faithful believer may get used to any character except telling lies and treachery.

151- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Some poetry is (words of) wisdom and some speech has magical influence.

152- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) asked Abu Tharr, “Which is the firmest handle of faith?” “God and His Messenger are the most knowledgeable,” answered Abu Tharr. The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The firmest handle of faith is to support, hate, and give - all for the sake of God.

153- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
To Seek goodness from God and to satisfy oneself with what He decides - these two matters achieve happiness to man. To leave seeking goodness from God and to show dissatisfaction with what God decides - these two matters bring unhappiness to man.

154- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Sorrow is repentance.

155- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Those who injure the sanctity of the Quran do not believe in it.

156- As a man asked for an instruction, the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Keep your tongue (from saying bad wording).
The man asked for more, and the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) repeated:
Keep your tongue.
The man asked for more, and the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) repeated:
Keep your tongue. Woe to you! Except the harvest of their tongues, nothing overturns people on their noses in Hell.

157- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Doing favors protects against violent death, secret almsgiving extinguishes the ire of the Lord, and regard of the relatives prolongs the age. Every favor is charity. People of charity in this world will be also the people of charity in the world to come. Similarly, people of evil in this world will be the people of evil in the world to come. People of charity will be in Paradise before others.

158- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
God likes to see the signs of His graces on the servants. He hates misery and pretense of misery.

159- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Good request is half of knowledge, and leniency is half of the livelihood.

160- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
As he gets older, son of Adam - human being- will enjoy two characters; greed and hope.

161- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Pudency is a part of faith.

162- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
In the Day of Resurrection, a servant’s feet will not move before he is asked about four matters. He will be asked how he had finished his age, how he had spent the age of his youth, what earnings he had got, where from he had got them, how he had spent them, and he will be also asked about his affection to us; the Prophet’s family.

163- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
For those who treat people fairly, speak with them truly, and fulfill their promises, their personality is perfect, their decency is apparent, their rewards are incumbent, and it is forbidden to backbite them.

164- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
It is illicit to violate anything of the believer: his honor, wealth, and blood - all are sanctified.

165- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Regard your relatives even by means of mere greeting.

166- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Faith is a determination in the heart, saying with the tongue, and performance of the pillars - of the religion-.

167- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Richness is not the abundance of profits. It is the self-sufficiency.

168- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
To desist from evildoing is charity.

169- Each intelligent and mindful individual of my umma is bound of four matters.
“What are they, God’s messenger?” asked they. The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) explained:
They are to listen to knowledge, retain, spread, and act upon it.

170- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Some speech has magical influence, some knowledge has ignorance, and some sayings are miraculous.

171- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
There are two categories of prophetic practices: one is in the obligatory duties. To commit oneself to such practices is guidance (to the right) and to leave it is deviation. The other is the practices that are not in the obligatory duties. To commit oneself to such practices is virtue and to neglect them is not a sin.

172- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Those who please a ruler by means that cause God’s dissatisfaction are out of God’s religion.

173- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The offerer of charity is better than the charity itself, and the committer of an evildoing is worse than the evil itself.

174- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
As God moves some people from the humility of the acts of disobedience to Him, to the honor of acts of obedience to Him, He enriches them without wealth, supports them without need of a clan, and entertains without need to a bosom friend. He who fears God, God will make everything fear him and will make him who does not fear Him fear everything. God accepts the few deeds of those who satisfy themselves with few earnings from Him. For those who have the courage of seeking legal earnings, their provisions will be easily obtainable, they will be quite restful, and their dependants will be luxurious. For those who abstain from pursuing the worldly pleasures, God will fix wisdom in their minds, make it glide on their tongues, show them the malady and remedy of the worldly defects, and move them from this world to the eternal abode safely.

175- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Overlook the faults of the mistaken.

176- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Ascetics is to disregard hopes, thank for every favor, and refrain from committing any forbidden thing.

177- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Never do any charity showily and never neglect it because you feel shy.

178- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
I fear for my people to encountering three matters: obeyed niggardliness, pursued fancy, and deviate leaders.

179- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The physical state of those who live in permanent worry is always unstable. The mentality of the ill-mannered individuals is always bad. The personality and dignity of those who dispute are missing.

180- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The evilest of my people are those whom people respect for avoiding their evildoing. He whom people respect for avoiding their evildoings are surely not included with my umma.

181- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
He who begins his day thinking of something other than God is not one of the people of God. He who does not care for the affairs of the believers is not one of them. He who succumbs to humility is not with us; the Prophet’s family.

182- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) wrote a missive to Me’aath bin Jabal, consoling for the death of his son:
From: Mohammed the Messenger of God.
To: Me’aath bin Jabal.
Peace be upon you. All praise is due to God but Whom there is no god.
So then, I have received the news of your grief for your son whom God took out of His act. Your son was one of God’s pleasant gifts and loans that He deposited with you. He enjoyed you with him for a period then took him back in the limited time. We are surely Allah’s and to Him we shall return. Your grief should never waste your rewards. If you only had known of the great rewards for this misfortune that befell you, you would have realized that the misfortune had been too short to meet the great rewards of God for people of submission - to Him- and steadfastness. You should know that grief will never return the dead or stop the fate. You should do well with consolation and work for obtaining the promised rewards. You should never grieve for what will unquestionably come to you, as well as all creatures. Peace and God’s mercy and blessings be upon you.

183- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The signs of the Hour of Resurrection are the great numbers of the reciters of the Quran and the littleness of the jurists, the great numbers of the rulers and the littleness of the trustees, and the great quantity of rain and the littleness of plants.

184- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
You should convey to me the questions of those who cannot reach me. On the Day of Resurrection, God will grant the conveyers of the questions of those who cannot reach the rulers a secure foothold on the Path.

185- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Two words are strange: they are a word of wisdom uttered by a foolish. You should accept it. The other is a foolish word uttered by a wise man. You should pardon it.

186- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
The lazy have three signs: he slows until he neglects, neglects until he wastes, and wastes until he commits a sin.

187- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
For them who have the courage of seeking legal earnings, they will benefit themselves, their provisions will be easily obtainable, and they will save themselves from arrogance.
God accepts the few deeds of those who satisfy themselves with the few earnings that are received from Him.
God will blind the heart of those who desire for the worldly pleasures and trust the world excessively, each according to the measure of his desire. For those who abstain from seeking the worldly pleasures and disregard worldly expectations, God will endow them with knowledge that they will obtain without need for learning, show them the right way without need for a guide, and will save them from blindness as He makes them discerning people.
After me, there shall come peoples who will not overpower people except by means of killing and arrogance, will not have wealth except by stinginess, and will not gain respect except by means of pursuing their whims and disregarding the religious affairs. God will give the rewards of fifty veracious men to those who live in that time and tolerate poverty while they can be rich, tolerate humility while they can be masters, and tolerate people’s dislike while they can obtain their respect; provided that all are intended for the sake of God and for obtaining the reward of the world to come.

188- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Beware of the piety of hypocrisy: it is to pretend of piety while the heart is not pious.

189- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Mercy falls upon the dispraised charitable ones.

190- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Accept the presents. The best present is the odor. It is light and sweet-smelling.

191- The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said:
Favors should be done to the religious or the highborn people.[37]
Jihad of the weak is the hajj, and jihad of women is their good behavior with their husbands.
Endearment is the half of the religion.
The moderate will never be poor.
Seek earnings through almsgiving.
God does not accept to make the earnings of their faithful servants come from the sources that they expect.

192- A servant of God will not attain the position of God-fearing before he leaves the licit if suspected so as not to commit an illicit matter.