The Gems

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THE GEMS

The Noble and Last Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said:

1. “What enables people to enter paradise more than anything is piety and good character.” [At-Tirmidhi]

2. “The most complete in faith are those best in character and kindest to their families.” [At-Tirmidhi]

3. “The best amongst you are those who have the best manners and character.” [Al Bukhari]

4. “A parent can give a child no greater gift than beautiful manners.” [Al-Hakim]

5. “There is nothing heavier than good character put in the scale of a believer on the Day of Resurrection.” [Abu Dawood]

6. “God does not regard your externals or your riches but rather your hearts and your deeds.” [Muslim]


Equality

7. “…You should show courtesy and be cordial with each other, so that nobody should consider himself superior to another nor do him harm.” [Muslim]

8. “All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black, nor a black has any superiority over a white except by piety and good action.” [Al Bukhari]


Self-Effort

9. “It is better for any of you to carry a load of firewood on his own back than begging from someone else.” [Al Bukhari and Muslim]


Altruism & Humanity

10. “None of you will have faith until he wishes for his brother what he likes for himself.” [Muslim]

11. “Love for humanity what you love for yourself.” [Al-Bukhari]

12. “Never express joy at your fellow man’s afflictions, for God just might free him of them and afflict you.” [At-Tabarani]

Cleanliness

13. “Islam is clean, so cleanse yourselves, for only the cleansed shall enter Paradise.” [At-Tabarani]


Friendliness & Kindness


14. “Hearts naturally love those who are kind to them and loathe those who are cruel.” [Al-Bayhaqi]

15. “Two should never converse privately excluding a third until others join them. The reason being is that it would dismay him.” [Al-Bukhari and Muslim]

16. “One aspect of manliness is for a fellow to listen attentively to his brother should he address him.” [Al-Khatib]

17. “Kindness is not to be found in anything but that it adds to its beauty and it is not withdrawn from anything but that it makes it defective.” [Muslim]

Mercy and Compassion

18. “Those who show mercy have God’s mercy shown to them. Have mercy on those here on earth, and the One there in Heaven will have mercy on you.” [Imam Ahmad]

19. “You see the believers as regards their being merciful among themselves and showing love among themselves and being kind, resembling one body, so that, if any part of the body is not well then the whole body shares the sleeplessness (insomnia) and fever with it.” [Al-Bukhari]

20. “He who is deprived of gentleness is deprived of good.” [Abu Dawood]

21. “Exchange gifts, and mutual love arises; shake hands, and enmity will fall away.” [Ibn 'Asakir]


Consideration for Others

22. “Should one of you yawn, let him place his hand over his mouth and avoid a yawner’s howl. Even Satan derides the howling yawner.” [Ibn Majah]

23. “If one of you requests permission to enter a place and, after three requests, permission is yet not granted, he should leave.” [Al Bukhari and Muslim]

24. “If you happen to see a funeral procession, stand for it until it passes or the dead is laid to rest.” [Al Bukhari and Muslim]

25. “Every Muslim has five rights over every other Muslim: the right to a reply should he greet him; an acceptance, should he invite him; a visit, should he fall ill; a prayer, should he sneeze; a presence at his funeral, should he die.” [Ibn Majah]


26. “He who directs others to a good deed is as the one who did it; and, assuredly, God loves the act of aiding the distressed.” [Ibn Abi ad-Dunya]

27. “May God have mercy on a servant who spoke well and gained good, or kept silent and avoided harm.” [Ibn Al Mubarak]

28. “Whoever does you a favor, repay him; and if you are unable to, then at least pray for him.” [At-Tabarani]

29. Anyone who sees a believer degraded, and, being able to defend him, does not, is degraded by God on the Day of Judgment. [Imam Ahmad]

Minding One’s Own Business

30. “Whoever spies on a group’s private conversation knowing that they would dislike him doing so shall have lead poured into his ears on the Day of Judgment.” [Al-Bukhari]

31. “Beautiful Islam entails minding one’s own business.” [At-Tirmidhi]


Ease

32. “Make things easy for the people, and do not make it difficult for them, and make them calm (with glad tidings) and do not repulse (them).” [Al-Bukhari]

33. “The believer gets along with people and they feel comfortable with him. There is no goodness in the one who does not get along with people and with whom they do not feel comfortable.” [Ahmad]


Women

34. “The best among you is the one who acts best toward his wife, and I am better than any of you toward his wife.” [Ibn Majah]

35. In response to the question, “What is the right of the wife over the husband?” The Messenger of God (pbuh) said, “That he not hit her in the face and not abuse her, that he feeds her with what he eats, that he clothes her in what he wears, and that he not keep himself apart from her.” [Tabrisi]

36. “Treat your women well and be kind to them, for they are your partners and committed helpers.” [Al-Bukhari]

37. “Paradise lies beneath the feet of mothers.” [Ahmad]

38. “The one who looks after and works for a widow and for a poor person, is like a warrior fighting for God’s Cause or like a person who fasts during the day and prays all the night.” [Al-Bukhari]

39. “Condemned is anyone who separates child from mother.” [Al-Bayhaqi]


Covering Faults & Backbiting

40. “Do you know what backbiting is?” Muhammad’s companions replied: “God and His Messenger know best.” Muhammad (pbuh) then said, “It is to say something about your brother that he would dislike.” Someone asked him, “But what if what I say is true?” The Messenger of God (pbuh) said, “If what you say about him is true, you are backbiting him, but if it is not true then you have slandered him.” [Muslim]

41. “Should you become eager to mention another’s faults, recall your own.” [Ar-Rafi’i]

42. “The servant who conceals the faults of others in the world, God would conceal his faults on the Day of Resurrection.” [Muslim]

43. “Whoever attempts to fault a man by mentioning something untrue about him will be detained in Hell by God until he produces the proof for his remarks.” [At-Tabarani]

44. “Veiling the faults of the faithful is akin to restoring life to the dead.” [At-Tabarani]

45. “Beware of suspicion, for it is the most deceitful of thought.” [Al Bukhari and Muslim]


Charity & Generosity

46. “The best charity a Muslim practices is acquiring some knowledge and teaching it to his brother.” [Ibn Majah]

47. “God said, ‘Spend, Oh son of Adam, and I shall spend on you.” [Al-Bukhari and Muslim]

48. “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]

49. “Each one of you should save himself from the fire by giving even half of a date (in charity). And if you do not find a half date, then (by saying) a pleasant word (to your brethren).” [Al Bukhari]

50. “A kind word is charity.” [Al Bukhari and Muslim]

51. “God will say on the Day of Resurrection, ‘O Son of Adam, I asked you for food and you fed Me not.’ He will say, ‘O Lord, and how should I feed You when You are the Lord of the worlds?’ He will say, ‘Did you not know that My servant so-and-so asked you for food and you fed him not? Did you not know that had you fed him you would surely have found that with Me?’” [Muslim]

52. “Two qualities are never coupled in a believer: miserliness and immorality.” [Al-Bukhari]

53. When a man complained to the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) of having a hard heart, the Prophet (pbuh) said: “Stroke orphans’ heads and feed the poor.” [Al-Tirmidhi]

54. The Prophet said, “I and the person who looks after an orphan and provides for him, will be in Paradise like this,” putting his index and middle fingers together. [Bukhari]

55. “Charity given to one’s relatives twice multiplies its reward” [At-Tabarani]

Visiting the Sick

56. “The most rewarding visitation of the sick is the one that is appropriately brief.” [Ad-Daylami]

57. “God will say on the Day of Resurrection, ‘O Son of Adam, I fell ill and you did not visit Me.’ He will say, ‘O Lord, and how should I Visit You when You are the Lord of the worlds.’ He will say, ‘Did you not know that My servant so-and-so had fallen ill and you did not visit him? Did you not know that had you visited him, you would have found Me with him.’” [Muslim]

Politics

58. “If a people’s dignitary pays a visit, honor him.” [Ibn Majah]

59. “God says, ‘Oh My servants, I have forbidden oppression for Myself and have made it forbidden amongst you, so do not oppress one another.’” [Muslim]

60. “It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing.” [Al-Tirmidhi]

61. The Messenger of God (pbuh) [after hearing the question, ‘What is the best type of Jihad (struggle)?’] said, “Speaking truth before a tyrannical ruler.” [An-Nisai]

62. “Avoid cruelty and injustice…and guard yourselves against miserliness, for this has ruined nations who lived before you.” [Muslim]

63. “On the Day of Judgment, God will humiliate and forsake anyone who betrays a believer to a tyrant.” [Al-Bayhaqi]

64. “Whoever walks with a tyrant in support of him, while aware of his tyranny, has abandoned Islam.” [At-Tabarani]

Medicine

65. “Seek out remedies for your ailments, O servants of God, for God has not created a disease without creating a corresponding cure.” [Ahmad]


Humility and Modesty

66. “Modesty is part of faith and fosters only goodness.” [Muslim]

67. “Charity does not in any way decrease the wealth and the servant who forgives, God adds to his respect; and the one who shows humility, God elevates him in the estimation (of the people).” [Muslim]

68. “Practice humility until no one oppresses or belittles another.” [Muslim]

Sincerity

69. “Speak the truth even though it is bitter.” [Ibn Hibban]

70. “The servants God loves most are those most sincere with God’s servants.” [Imam Ahmad]

71. “A person who teaches goodness to others while neglecting his own soul is like an oil lamp, which illumines others while burning itself out.” [At-Tabarani]

72. “If a person does not give up false accusations and bad behavior while fasting, God has no need of his giving up food and drink.” [Al-Bukhari]



Brotherhood and Sisterhood

73. “Do not hate one another, and do not be jealous of one another, and do not desert each other, and O, God’s worshipers! Be brothers. Lo! It is not permissible for any Muslim to desert (not talk to) his brother for more than three days.” [Al-Bukhari]

74. “A believer is like a brick for another believer, the one supporting the other.” [Muslim]

75. “The believers are like one person; if his body aches, the whole body aches with fever and sleeplessness.” [Muslim]

76. “If a Muslim consoles his brother during some crisis, God will adorn him in garments of grace on the Day of Judgment.” [Ibn Majah]

77. “After obligatory rites, the action most beloved to God is delighting other Muslims.” [At-Tabarani]

78. “Abandon desire for this world, and God will love you. Abandon desire for others’ goods, and people will love you.” [Ibn Majah]

79. “Three practices will keep sincere your brother’s love for you: greeting him when you see him; making room for him in gatherings; and calling him by the most endearing of his names.” [Al-Bayhaqi]

80. “Neither argue with nor tease your brother, and never give your word to him and then break it.” [At-Tirmidhi]

81. “The gates of Paradise will be opened on Monday and on Thursdays, and every servant [of God] who associates nothing with God will be forgiven, except for the man who has a grudge against his brother.” [Muslim]

The Conscience

82. “Righteousness is good morality, and wrongdoing is that which wavers in your soul and which you dislike people finding out about.” [Muslim]

83. “If your good deeds delight you and your foul deeds distress you, you are a believer.” [Ad-Diyya’]

84. “A person has done enough wrong in his life if he simply repeats everything he hears.” [Muslim]



Choice of Friends

85. “A person’s spiritual practice is only as good as that of his close friends; so consider well whom you befriend.” [At-Tirmidhi]




Rekindling Kinship Bonds

86. “Among those not graced with God’s glance on the Day of Judgment are a severer of bonds of kin and an obnoxious neighbor.” [Ad-Daylami]

87. “The most virtuous behavior is to engage those who sever relations, to give to those who withhold from you, and to forgive those who wrong you.” [At-Tabarani]

88. “Nurse no grudge, nurse no aversion and do not sever ties of kinship and live like fellow-brothers as servants of God.” [Muslim]



Sin

89. “The majority of man’s sins emanate from his tongue.” [At-Tabarani]

90. “The worst of heinous sins are idolatry, murder, abuse of one’s parents, and false testimony.” [Al-Bukhari]

91. “God removes faith from one who engages in illicit sex or consumes intoxicants just as a man removes his shirt when pulling it over his head.” [Al-Hakim]

92. “Whoever has no shame before others has no shame before God.” [At-Tabarani]

93. “Never do in private what you would conceal from others in public.” [Ibn Majah]

94. “He who sins laughing enters hell crying.” [Abu Nu'aym]


Respect for Parents

95. “Whoever pleases his parents has pleased God, and whoever angers them has angered God.” [Ibn an-Najjar]

96. A man came to Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and asked, “Who is more entitled to be treated with the best companionship by me?” The Prophet (pbuh) said, “Your mother.” The man said. “Who is next?” The Prophet (pbuh) said, “Your mother.” The man further said, “Who is next?” The Prophet (pbuh) said, “Your mother.” The man asked for the fourth time, “Who is next?” The Prophet (pbuh) said, “Your father.” [Al-Bukhari]



Respect for the Elderly

97. “Whoever fails to care for our youth, respect our aged, enjoin right, and denounce wrong is not counted among us.” [Ahmad]

98. “A young man never honors an old man due to age but that God send someone to honor him when he reaches that age.” [At-Tirmidhi]


Kindness to Neighbours

99. “A believer is not one who eats his fill while his next door neighbor goes hungry.” [Al-Bukhari]

100. “Gabriel continued to recommend me about treating the neighbors kindly and politely so much so that I thought he would order me to make them as my heirs.” [Al-Bukhari]

101. “Anyone who believes in God and the Last Day (of Judgment) should not harm his neighbor. Anyone who believes in God and the Last Day should entertain his guest generously. And anyone who believes in God and the Last Day should say what is good or keep quiet.” [Al-Bukhari]


Respect for the Dead

102. “Recall the good qualities of your dead, and refrain from mentioning their shortcomings” [At-Tirmidhi]

Kindness to Servants

103. “Never strike your maids over broken dishes, for dishes, like people, have pre-determined life spans.” [Abu Nu'aym]

104. “Anytime you lighten the load of your servant, a reward is allotted to your scales on the Day of Judgment.” [Al-Bayhaqi]

Anger-Management

105. “God veils the faults of anyone who suppresses his anger.” [Ibn Abi ad-Dunya]

106. “When one of you becomes angry while standing he should sit down. If the anger leaves him, well and good; otherwise he should lie down.” [At-Tirmidhi]


Hypocrisy

107. “The characteristics of a hypocrite are three, when he speaks, he lies; when he gives his word, he breaks it; and when he is given a trust, he is unfaithful.” [Al-Bukhari and Muslim

Kindness to Animals

108. The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was asked: “…Are we rewarded for kindness towards animals?” Muhammad (pbuh) replied, “There is a reward for kindness to every living being.” [Al-Bukhari]