BOOK :NAHJ AL-FASAHAH
HEIGHT OF RHETORIC
WISE OF THE HOLY PROPHET, MUHAMMAD SAWW
- · A believer is a servant of God who doesn’t oppress his enemies nor does he commit sins for the sake of his friends, who keeps trusts intact and refrains from jealousy, sarcasm and cursing others, who tells the truth though not called to bear witness and calls not people with bad names, who observes humility in prayers, hastes in paying his due alms, keeps patient in calamities and thanks (God) in affluence, who is content with what he has and claims not what he doesn’t, who doesn’t stop doing good deeds due to misery, who keeps company with people to learn and talks to them something to earn, and who forebears oppression and tyranny, awaiting the Merciful God to give him victory
· A (true) Muslim is the one from whose tongue and hand, Muslims at rest stand.
· A (true) believer does not taunt, damn, slander and abuse people.
· Bad - temperedness is ill- omened, obedience to women is regrettable, and good- naturedness is growth.
· Be a company to the Quran and make it your leader and guide, for it’s the word of the Lord of the worlds. It belongs to Him and to Him will it return. Believe in its allegorical verses and take lessons from its parable.
· Be a follower to the Book(QURAN) of God forever.
· Be careful about a believer’s wit, for he looks (at things) through the light of God, the Most High!
· Be early rising, for in it there is blessing.
· Calamities are rewarded greatly; and should God love a people, He will put them to trial.
· Call unto your Lord and believe that He will hear you, and know that God will not grant the prayers of those with negligent hearts.
· Damned is the one who bothers a believer or plots against him.
· Death is a gift for believers.
· Death of a lonely person is martyrdom.
· Faith consists of recognition by heart, acknowledgment by tongue and performance by (bodily) organs.
· Fasting is a shield against God's punishment.
· Fear God in treating women, for they are your assisting maidens.
· Gabriel addressed me, saying: "The Exalted God says, `There is no god but Allah is My fort. Whoever enters it, will be safe against My punishment."
· Get married and increase in number, for I will pride myself in you over other nations in the Day of Judgement.
· Give alms(Zakat), for it surely releases you from the Fire.
· Give alms, for it surely releases you from the Fire.
· Half of the graves dug for my people is due to evil eyes and gluttony.
· Haste in seeking knowledge, for uttering true words is better than the world and its gold and silver.
· I advise you (to be careful) about your neighbors.
· I advise you to fear the Exalted God(ALLAH) in public and in privacy, to do good after doing evil, to ask nothing from people, to hold nothing on trust and to avoid judging between two persons.
· Jealousy eats away good deeds just as fire eats away firewood, and charity puts out (the flames of) sins just as water puts out fire.
· Keep away from oppression, for it will bring (you) darkness in the Day of Judgement.
· Laughing is of two kinds- that which God likes, i.e. a man's smiling at his brother's face out of pleasure to see him, and that which the Exalted God dislikes, i.e. a man's saying something false or unjust to laugh or make people laugh and thus, falling to Hell for seventy autumns.
· Make a pilgrimage(HAJJ) to Mecca, needlessness to gain; and travel, healthy to remain.
· Never will God put to Fire the flesh of a servant to whom He has given good countenance and character.
· O God! Beautify my temper as You beautified my face.
· Read the Quran and act upon it. Do not leave it, do not exaggerate about it, do not earn your living through it, and do not seek superiority (abundance) by means of it.
· Safeguard the earth, for it is your mother who will report (to God) the good or evil any one does on it
· Paradise will be the reward of the one with three daughters, who trains them in good manners, gives them in marriage and is kind to them.
· Passionate love of the world is the source of all evils.
· Patience belongs to God, and haste to Satan.
· Patience to faith is like unto brain to body.
· Pay a visit to patients and ask them to pray for you, since their praying will be granted and their sins forgiven (by God).
· Pay a visit to the graves (of all), Hereafter to recall.
· People are Adam's sons (anyway), and Adam was made of clay.
· People are all dependents of God, and the most favorite of them to God is the most beneficial to His dependents.
Please recite Surah Fatiha for Najma Begam
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