BEAUTIFUL SAYINGS OF THE HOLY PROPHET صلّی اللہ علیہ وسلم -Traits of Human Being

BEAUTIFUL SAYINGS OF 

THE HOLY PROPHET (صلّی اللہ علیہ وسلم)

The Holy Prophet (صلّی اللہ علیہ وسلم) said:

1. Nothing is comparable to two traits of one's character ...believing in Allaah Almighty and benefiting the general Muslims and nothing is worse than two things....associating a partner(s) with Allaah (سبحانہ و تعالٰی) and hurting Muslims. 

2. There are three things which emancipate a believer, three things destroy him, three things upgrade his degrees and three things atone for his sins.

 

A. Emancipation:

(1). Fearing Allaah openly and secretly,

(2). To be' moderate in destitution and affluence and

(3). Be just in pleasure and in anger.

 B. Destruction:

(1). To be miserly or greedy,

(2). To be selfish and

(3). To be self-conceited. Conceit leads one to haughtiness.

C. Up gradation:

(1). Promoting "Salaam" among believers,

(2). Feeding the poor, destitute and

(3). Offering "Nafil" prayers late night while others are asleep. 

D. Atonement:

(1). Performance of ablution in chilling cold washing the necessary parts of the body well,

(2). Walking on foot to mosque to join congregational prayer and

(3). Waiting for another prayer having offered the one.

Minor sins are automatically forgiven by the blessings of these good acts. However, for the forgiveness of one's major sins, one is required to repent and seek forgiveness of Allaah (سبحانہ و تعالٰی).

 

3. Four things are signs of misfortune:

(a).     Forgetting one's past sins although they are written in his sheet of actions preserved with Allaah Almighty,

(b).    Publicizing his virtues even though he does not know whether they have been accepted or rejected,

(c).     Keeping those ones in eyes who enjoy higher status in society than oneself (with the intention of imitating them) and

(d).    Looking only to those ones who have less knowledge of religious affairs than oneself. For such person

                                                                               Allaah Almighty says: 

"I intend good for him but he did not make My pleasure his objective. So I abandoned him to himself." 

And four things signify good fortune:

(a).  Keeping one's sins in mind. (It enables one to repent and seek forgiveness of Allaah),

(b).    To do a virtue and then to forget that,

(c).  Keeping such ones in eyes who have profound knowledge of the religion. (It will inspire him to greater efforts for Islam) and

(d).  Looking to the poor and destitute (it will make him thankful to Allaah (سبحانہ و تعالٰی).