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Words of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH)
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- Avoiding What is Doubtful:
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said “That which is lawful is clear, and that which is unlawful is also quite clear. Between these two is that which is ambiguous, which most people do not know. One who avoids the doubtful safeguards his faith and his honor.”
——— Riyadh-us-Salaheen, Hadith 588.
Business and Trade:
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was asked what type of earning was best, and he replied: ” A man’s work with his hands and every (lawful) business transaction.”
——— Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 846.
The Prophet also said: “A truthful and trustworthy merchant is associated with the prophets.“
——— Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 50.
The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: ““It is better for any of you to carry a load of firewood on his own back than to beg from someone else .”
——— Riyadh-Us-Saleheen, Chapter 59, hadith 540.
And also: “There was a merchant who would lend to the people, and whenever his debtor was in difficult circumstances, he would say to his employees, ‘Forgive him so that God may forgive us.’ So, God forgave him.”
——— Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 3, Hadith 292.
Character:
“Make your character good for the people.“
——— Prophet Muhammad (s) as narrated Al-Muwatta, Volume 47, Hadith 1
Charity:
The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: “Do not turn away a poor man…even if all you can give is half a date. If you love the poor and bring them near you…God will bring you near Him on the Day of Resurrection.”
——— Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 1376.
Constancy in Doing Good:
“Do good deeds properly, sincerely and moderately and know that your deeds will not make you enter Paradise, and that the most beloved deed to Allah’s is the most regular and constant even though it were little.”
——— Prophet Muhammad (s) as narrated by A’isha (ra) in Sahih Bukhari, vol. 8, hadith 471
Forgiveness:
The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: ““It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing.”
——— Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 1011.
The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: “Whoever is offered an apology from a fellow Muslim should accept it unless he knows that the person apologizing is being dishonest.”
——— Mishkat al Tabrizi, Vol 3, Hadith no. 5052.
Generosity:
The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: “Indeed, an ignorant man who is generous is dearer to God than a worshipper who is miserly.”
——— Al-Tirmidhi: Hadith 580.
Good Conduct Toward Others:
The Prophet Muhammad (s) said, “None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.”
——— Bukhari and Muslim.
The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: “He will not enter Paradise whose neighbour is not secure from his wrongful conduct.“
——— Sahih Muslim, Hadith 15.
The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: “Anybody who believes in Allah and the Last Day should not harm his neighbor, and anybody who believes in Allah and the Last Day should entertain his guest generously, and anybody who believes in Allah and the Last Day should talk what is good or keep quiet (i.e. abstain from all kinds of evil and dirty talk).“
——— Narrated by Abu Hurayrah, Sahih Al Bukhari, Vol: 8 Hadith 47.
The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: “There is reward for kindness to every living thing.”
——— Bukhari and Muslim.
The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: “God is kind and likes kindness in all things.“
——— Rihadh us-Saleheen, Volume 1:633.
The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: “Be kind, for whenever kindness becomes part of something, it beautifies it. Whenever it is taken from something, it leaves it tarnished.“
——— Imam Bukhari’s Book of Muslim Manners.
“Those who work for you are your brothers. Allah has made them your assistants.”
——— Bukhari and Tirmidhi.
Humility:
“The (true) servants of (God) the Most Gracious are those who walk on the earth in humility, and when the ignorant address them, reply with (words of) peace.”
——— The Holy Quran, 25:63.
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said “(God) has revealed to me that you should adopt humility so that no one oppresses another.”
——— Riyadh-us-Salaheen, Hadith 1589.
The Prophet (s) said, “Shall I inform you about the people of Paradise? They comprise every obscure unimportant humble person, and if he takes Allah’s Oath that he will do that thing, Allah will fulfill his oath (by doing that). Shall I inform you about the people of the Fire? They comprise every cruel, violent, proud and conceited person.”
——— Narrated by Haritha Bin Wahb, in Sahih Al Bukhari, vol 8 hadith 97.
Ihsan (Excellence):
Allah loves, when one of you is doing something, that he [or she] does it in the most excellent manner.
——— Muhammad (p) cited in Al-Qaradawi, Yusuf, Dawr Al-Qiyam Wal-Akhlaaq Fi Al-Iqtisaad Al-Islaami. Maktabat Wahbah, 1995.
Knowledge:
If anyone travels on a road in search of knowledge, Allah will cause him to travel on one of the roads of Paradise.
——— Prophet Muhammad (s) as reported by Abu Darda in Sunan Abu Dawood, hadith #1631.
The knowledge from which no benefit is derived is like a treasure out of which nothing is spent in the cause of Allah.
——— Prophet Muhammad (s) as reported by Abu Hurayrah, transmitted by Ahmad and Darimi in Al Tirmidhi, hadith #108.
He who issues forth in search of knowledge is busy in the cause of Allah till he returns from his quest.
——— Prophet Muhammad (s) as reported by Anas Ibn Malik in Al Tirmidhi, hadith #420.
The seeking of knowledge is obligatory for every Muslim. [...]
——— Prophet Muhammad (s) as reported by Ibn Majah and Bayhaqi in Shu’ab al-Iman; also reported by Anas Ibn Malik in Al Tirmidhi, hadith #74.
Leadership:
“The worst of guardians is a cruel ruler. Beware of becoming one of them.”
——— Prophet Muhammad (s) as reported in Sahih Muslim, Hadith 846.
Mercy:
The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: ““Allah will not be merciful to those who are not merciful to people.”
——— Sahih al-Bukhari, Vol. 9, #473.
Moderation:
The best of all dealings is the one which is moderate.
——— Prophet Muhammad (s) as reported by Baihaqi.
They are the losers, those who make the religion hard and tough. They imperil themselves who enforce tough practices of Islam. They destroy themselves, those who are extremes.
——— Prophet Muhammad (s) as reported by Ibn Masud in Sahih Muslim.
Make things easy and convenient and don’t make them harsh and difficult. Give cheer and glad tidings and do not create hatred.
——— Prophet Muhammad (s) in Riyadh us-Saleheen, Volume 1:637.
Peace:
“He who makes peace between people by inventing good information or saying good things, is not a liar.”
——— Prophet Muhammad (s) as reported in Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 3, Hadith 857.
Relaxation:
“(Islam) is spacious (and has room for relaxation), and I have been sent with an easy and straightforward religion.”
——— Prophet Muhammad (s) as reported in Fiqh-us-Sunnah, Volume 2, Number 153.
Silence:
Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, let him say something good or keep quiet.
——— Prophet Muhammad (s) as reported by Abu Huraira–mutafakkun ghalai.
Strength:
A strong person is not the person who throws his adversaries to the ground. A strong person is the one who contains himself when he is angry.
——— Prophet Muhammad (s) as quoted in Islam on Line website.
Truth:
A true action leads to the path of virtue and good deeds, and virtue paves the way of a person to Paradise, and the said person continues to speak the truth till in the sight of Allah he is named Siddiq or Truthful. Lying leads to vice, and vice leads to indecent acts and if a person goes on lying till in the sight of Allah he is named a liar.
——— The Prophet (s) as reported by Abdullah Ibn Mas’ud (r) in Bukhari and Muslim.
Wealth and Success:
Wealth is not due to plenty of money, but wealth is the wealth of the self.
——— Prophet Muhammad (s) as agreed upon–mutafakkun ghalai.
The most valuable things in life) are a tongue which mentions God, a grateful heart and a believing wife who helps a man with his faith.
——— Prophet Muhammad (s) as reported in Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 721.
Forsake wordly pleasures, Allah will like you, and forsake what others have, mankind will like you.
——— Prophet Muhammad (s) as reported by Ibn Majah.
Wisdom:
Wisdom is a long-cherished wish to the believer. He takes it from wherever he listens to it; and he does not mind from where it came out.
——— Prophet Muhammad (s) as as narrated by Ibn Hibban
1) The worst blindness is straying from the straight
path after receiving true guidance.
2) Among the virtues of a believer are cleanliness in
dress, contentment and thankfulness when one does not have enough.
3) A believer wishes for others what he wishes for
himself.
4) When your good deeds please you and your bad deeds
cause you grief, you are a believer.
5) The believers are like the parts of a building
strengthening one another.
6) Look at those who are less fortunate than you so
that you are not ungrateful for the things which you have been blessed with by
Allah.
7) Allah Almighty has cursed the one offering the
bribe, the one who is receiving it as well as the go-between.
8) If you are a trustworthy, honest and truthful
businessman, you will rise up with the martyrs on the Day of Judgment.
9) The greatest form of charity is the effort to help a
poor man, made in secret by one who is poor himself.
10) When Allah Almighty blesses someone with children,
and they give their children their love, and meet their parental obligation,
Allah saves them from the fire of hell.
11) When you see a coffin passing by stand up (out of
respect) whether it is a Muslim or a non-Muslim.
12) Man is tested according to his level of faith. If
his faith is firm, his trials increase in severity.
13) For everything there is a way to purify it, and for
the body it is fasting.
14) The Almighty forgives him who forgives others.
15) Whoever buys a gift and brings it home to his
family he is like one who has given charity.
16) Whatever hardship a person faces – even if it is as
small as the prick from a thorn -Allah makes it atonement for his sins.
17) The greatest kin of holy war is to speak up for
truth in the face of a ruling authority that deviates from the right path.
18) Whoever follows a path seeking knowledge, Allah
Almighty will make that path easy for them.
19) The best thing you can do is to serve your mother,
then your mother, then your mother, and then you father, then your relatives.
20) The one who cares for a widow or the needy is like
the one who fasts all day and prays all night.
21) Beware of the prayer of the victim of an injustice,
for there is no barrier between him and Allah Almighty.
22) Allah Almighty has no regard for a prayer in which
a man’s heart is not present with his bodily actions.
23) Previous nations were destroyed because they let
off people with high rank and punished the poor and the helpless.
24) The superiority of a learned man over the one
engaged only in ritual worship is like that of a full moon over the stars.
25) What comes to you in my name but is in conflict of
theQuran cannot be from me.
26) You have rights over women and women have rights
over you.
27) Before speaking the salaam should be said.
(Tirmizi)
28) Spread the salaam amongst yourselves. (Muslims)
29) Whoever sends one Durood upon me, Allah sends ten
blessings (Durood) upon him. (Tirmizi)
30) My intercession is for the big sinners in my Ummah.
(Tirmizi)
31) Cleanliness is a part of the Faith. (Tirmizi)
32) Dua is the kernel of Ibaadat. (Tirmizi)
33) Actions depend on their intention. (Bukhari and
Muslim)
34) A Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands a Muslim
is safe. (Al-Bukhari)
35) The best of you is the one who learned and taught
the Quran. (Al-Bukhari)
36) Modesty is a part of faith. (Muslim)
37) Visit the graves because they remind one of the
Akhirah. (Muslim)
38) A Muslim is a brother of a Muslim. (Al-Bukhari)
39) To learn the Knowledge of the Deen is fard upon
every Muslim man and woman. (Ibn-e-Majah)
40) Salah is a pillar of the Deen. (Tabarâni)
41) Whoever is deprived of tenderness (unto others) is
deprived of good. (Muslim)
42) Relate on my behalf even if it is an Ayah.
(Al-Bukhari)
43) Whoever remains quiet attains salvation. (Tirmizi)
44) The influence of the gaze is Haq (the Truth).
(Al-Bukhari)
45) Religion is the name of well-wishing. (Al-Bukhari)
46) Announce your Nikah (marriage). (Tirmizi)
47) Nikah (marriage) is my Sunnah. (Ibn-e-Majah)
48) Whoever turns from my sunnah is not from me.
(Al-Bukhari)
49) Dua rids calamity.
50) I distribute (to people) and Allah gives.
(Al-Bukhari)
51) To be ashamed (of sins) is repentance.
(Ibn-e-Majah)
52) It is because of those Awliya (Friends) of Allah
that it rains and it is because of them that Rizq (sustenance) is given.
53) Fasting is a shield (from sins). (Tirmizi)
54) The best sadaqah is that a Muslim man learns knowledge
(of the Deen) and then teaches it to his Muslim brothers. (Ibn-e-Majah)
55)
“Whoever innovates a good innovation in Islam has its reward and the reward of
those who would practice upon it until the Day of Judgment – without lessening
the rewards of those who practice with it. The one who innovates the innovation
of misguidance, would take the sin for it and the sin of those who practice
upon it until the Day of Judgment–without lessening the sin of those who
practice with it.” (Muslim, as-Sahih, 2:705<script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8283502903234555"
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