SELECTED SAYINGS OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD
In this holy month of Ramadan, here are some selected sayings
of Prophet Muhammad. To read and comprehend them with all their connotations
and then share them with others will be a sacred utilisation of time. But to make them a
source of enlightenment and inspiration for your own thoughts and actions will be
of much greater significance because it
will enable you to lead a perfectly righteous and peaceful life.
1.A keeper
of fast, who doth not abandon lying and detraction, God careth not about his
leaving off eating and drinking; that is, God does not accept his fasting.
2.Backbiting
vitiates ablution and fasting.
3.Do you
love your Creator? Love you fellow-beings first.
4. The ink
of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.
5. One
hour’s meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of
prayer.
6.That
person is wise and sensible who subdueth his carnal desires and hopeth for
rewards; and he is an ignorant man who followeth his lustful appetites, and
with this asketh God’s forgiveness.
7. Riches
are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind
8. No person
hath drunk a better draught than that of anger which he hath swallowed for
God’s sake.
9. Humility
and courtesy are the acts of piety.
10. No man
is true in the truest sense of the word but he who is true in word, in deed,
and in thought.
11. No
father has given his child anything better than good manners.
12. The truest
words spoken by any poet are those of Labid :
‘Know that everything is vanity save God.’ Labid was an Arabic poet
(560A-661AD).
13. Strive
always to excel in virtue and truth.
14. He who
knoweth his own self, knoweth God.
15. The
people for the Abode of Bliss are thee; the first, a just king, a doer of good
to his people, endowed with virtue; the second, and affectionate man, of a
tender heart to relations and others; the third, a virtuous man.
16. Heaven
lieth at the feet of mothers.
17. Go in
quest of knowledge even unto China.
18. Hell is
veiled in delights, and Heaven in hardships and miseries.
19. Do not
speak ill of the dead.
20. What
actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of a human being, to feed the
hungry, to help the afflicted, to
lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the wrongs of he injured.
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14th
April 2021 G.
R. KANWAL
Worth reading n adopting in life
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