Good Manners (2/2)

Purity

Someone asked the Prophet: "Teach me a work such that when I perform it God and man will love me." Muhammad (Peace be upon him) said: "Desire not the world and God will love you, and desire not what men have and they will love you."  “There is a polish, for everything, that takes away rust; and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God;” said the Prophet.

The companions said, "Is not repelling the infidels also like this?"

Muhammad (Peace be upon him) said, "No, although one fights until one's sword is broken."

They will enter the Garden of Bliss who have a true, pure and merciful heart.

Reason

God has not created anything better than Reason, or anything more perfect or more beautiful than Reason; the benefits which God gives are on its account; and understanding is by it, and God's wrath is caused by it, and by it are rewards and punishments.

Salutation

Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: "Let the younger one salute the elderly and let the one who is walking salute the one sitting and let those who are small in number salute those who are large in number.”

Self-Control

The most excellent Jihad (Holy war) is that for the conquest of self.

"Give me advice", said someone. Muhammad (Peace be upon him) said: "Be not angry."

No person has drunk a better draught than he who has swallowed anger for God's sake.

Verily the most beloved of you to me and nearest to me in the next world are those of good disposition; and verily the greatest enemies to me and the furthest from me are the ill-tempered.

Whoever suppresses his anger, when he has the power to show it, God will give him a great reward.

He is not strong and powerful who throws people down; but he is strong who withholds himself from anger.

That person is most respectable with God who pardons, when in his power, his enemy who has injured him previously.

Abu Bakr relates that he heard the Holy Prophet say: "Let no judge decide a case between two parties while he is in a rage."

The Holy Prophet said: "There are two blessings which most of the people abuse - health and prosperity."

Shyness

Umm Salma said: "I have heard from the Holy Prophet that a woman who takes off her clothes in a place other than her home is disgraceful:"

Truth

He is not of me who, when he speaks falsely; who, when he promises, breaks his promise; and who, when trust is reposed in him, fails in his trust. Strive always to excel in virtue and truth. Say what is true, although it may be bitter and displeasing to people.

Miscellaneous

"When you go to sleep, put out the lamp, shut the doors, cover the mouths of water-skins and cover food and drink.

Do not wear silk or silk brocade, and do not drink in vessels of gold and silver, and do not eat in bowls made of them; for they are for others in this life and for us in the next.

When the servant brings to one of you his food, and if you do not make him sit with you to eat at the same table, then give him a morsel or two, for he has laboured to prepare it.

Sit together and do not eat separately; for the blessing is with the company.

Five things are in accord with proper tidiness in nature; they are circumcision, the removal of superfluous hair, the removal of hair in the armpit, paring of nails and the clipping of the moustache.

The Messenger of Allah saw a man lying upon his belly and said; "This is a posture Allah does not like;' and remarked ‘This is the way the inmates of the fire lie down:'”

Abu Musa relates that the Holy Prophet on hearing that a house in Medina one night caught fire and was reduced to ashes along with its inmates, said, "Of a certainty this fire is caused by your enemy, so when you go to sleep put it out."

Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: ''Allah has not sent down a sickness for which he has not sent down a remedy."

Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: "The Believer is not bitten twice at the same spot."

Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: "Let not the sick camel go near to the healthy one".