Advice
And Wisdom
SAYINGS OF THE MESSENGER
(SallAllaahu
‘Alayhi wa ‘Aalihii Wasallam)
296. Sayyidina
Ibn Abbas (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
There are two blessings of which
many people are deceived (thinking that they will go on receiving them so they
do not value them). The blessings are: health and time (to do
good). (Bukhari,
Mishkat)
297. Sayyidina
Mustawrid bin Shaddad (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
By Allah, the example of this
world in relation to the Hereafter is nothing more than one of you putting his
finger in the sea and observing what (water) it brings on it. (Muslim, Mishkat)
298. Sayyidina
Abu Hurayrah (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
The world is a prison for the
believer but paradise for an unbeliever. (Muslim, Mishkat)
299. Sayyidina
Amr bin al-Awf (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
By Allah, I do not fear poverty
and want on you but I fear that you may receive worldly favors and riches
generously as people before you had received. And, I fear that you will evince
similar greed as people before you had done, and that it will ruin you as it
had ruined them. (Bukhari,
Muslim, Mishkat)
300. Sayyidina
Abu Hurayrah (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
A man says: “My property! That is
my property.” Truly, however, only three things are his in his property.
1. One that he consumes and
finishes,
2. The other that he wears
and makes old, and,
3.
The third that he gives (in the cause of Allah) and hoards (for the Hereafter).
The rest he will leave for other
people when he dies. (Muslim, Mishkat)
301. Sayyidina
Anas (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
Three things accompany the dead
body (up to the graveyard). Two of these return and only one stays with it. The
three things are his relatives, his property (bier, for instance) and his
deeds. Of these three, the relatives and property return; (and only) his deeds
remain with him. (Bukhari, Muslim, Mishkat)
302. Sayyidina
Amr bin Maymoon (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
Value five things before five
other things:
1. Youth before old age and
infirmity.
2.
Health before illness.
3.
Richness before poverty
4.
Leisure before occupation, and,
5.
Life before death. (Tirmizi,
Mishkat)
303. Sayyidina
Abu Moosa (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
He who loves his worldly life
causes damage to his next life. He who loves his next life causes damage to his
present life. So, prefer the lasting world (the Hereafter) to the ending life
(this world). (Ahmad, Bayhaqi, Mishkat)
304. Sayyidina
Anas (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
Keep away from what is forbidden
and you will become most devoted to worship of all the people. Be pleased with
what Allah has apportioned for you and you will be the richest of all people.
Be well-behaved with your neighbour, you will become a Believer and love for
others what you love for yourselves, you will become Muslims. Do not laugh much
for excess of laughter deadens the heart. (Ahmad,
Tirmizi, Mishkat)
305. Sayyidina
Abu Hurayrah (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
Richness is not from abundance of
possession and property but true richness is from contentment of the heart. (Bukhari, Muslim, Mishkat)
306. Sayyidina
Ibn Mas’ood (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
What do I have to do with this
world? My example in relation to this world is like a horse-rider who shades
himself under a tree and then, leaving it, goes ahead. (Ahmad, Tirmizi, Ibn Majah, Mishkat)
307. Sayyidina
Ibn Mas’ood (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
On the day of Resurrection, the
feet of the son of Adam will not move (from his place) until he is asked about
five things:
1. About his age-how
did he spend it?
2.
About his youth-how did he waste it away?
3.
About his property-how did he earn it?
4.
And on what did he use it? And,
5.
About the knowledge that he acquired-how did he act on it? (Tirmizi, Mishkat)
308. Sayyidina
Abu Zarr (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
As for him who becomes unconcerned
with this world, Allah grows wisdom in his heart, and He causes his tongue to
speak words of wisdom. Allah makes him see the disease of this world and its
cure. And, He takes him safely from the world to Dar us-Salaam (the abode of
peace, Paradise). (Bayhaqi, Mishkat)
309. Sayyidina
Jabir (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
What I fear most for my people is
passionate desires and tall hopes and aspirations. Passionate desires keep
people away from the truth and tall hopes make them forget the Hereafter.
(Mind!) This world journeys away and the Hereafter journeys here (approaching
us). Of men, some are children of the world and some of the Hereafter. Thus, if
you can do it, do not become children of the world because while today you are
in the abode of action where no account is taken, tomorrow you will be in the
abode of the Hereafter where action will not be possible. (Bayhaqi, Mishkat)
310. Sayyidina Abu Hurayrah (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
When a man dies, the angels ask,
“What has he brought with him (of deeds)?” But men (on earth) say, “What has he
left behind (of property)?” (Bayhaqi, Mishkat)
311. Sayyidina
Abu Ayyub Ansari (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
When you stand up for your prayer,
offer such a prayer as one who departs observes it (praying your last prayer,
as it were). And, do not say such a thing as might cause you to regret
tomorrow. And, give up hope for what people have with them (of
property). (Ahmad,
Mishkat)
312. Sayyidina
‘Abdullah bin ‘Umar (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)
There are four characteristics
which if found in anyone he is a hypocrite without doubt. If anyone has one
(single) characteristic of these then he has one peculiarity of hypocrisy until
he abandons it. (The four characteristics are:)
1. If he is entrusted
with something, he betrays the trust.
2.
When he speaks, he lies.
3.
When he enters into a pact, he is unfaithful.
4.
When he quarrels, he acts sinfully (abusing and reviling). (Bukhari, Muslim, Mishkat)
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