SELECTED SAYINGS OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD

 

SELECTED SAYINGS OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD

 

There is absolutely no doubt that that Prophet Muhammad shed a brilliant light on all the problems  humanity has to  tackle and  grapple with .  His sayings very few of which are reproduced below  deserve to be studied by everybody who wants to live a perfectly happy, heathy , safe, and blessed life.     

(1). Keep fast and eat also, stay awake at night and sleep also, for verily there is a duty on you to your body, not to labour overmuch, so that ye me not get ill and destroy yourselves; and verily there is a duty on you to your eyes, ye must sometimes sleep and give them rest; and verily there is  a duty on you to your wife, and to your visitors and guests that come to see you; ye must talk to them.

(2). O Lord ! grant to me the love of Thee; grant that I love those who love Thee; grant that I may do the deeds that win Thy love; make Thy love dearer to me than self, family or  wealth.

(3). My cherisher hath ordered me nine things : (1) To reverence Him, externally and internally, (2) to speak true, and with propriety, in prosperity and adversity; (3) moderation in affluence and poverty; (4) to benefit my relations and kindred, who do not benefit me; (5) to give alms to him who  refuseth me; (6) to forgive him who injureth me; (7) that my silence should be in attaining a knowledge of God ; (8) that when I speak, I should mention Him; (9) that  when I look on God’s creatures, it should be as an example for them: and God hath ordered me to direct in that which is lawful.

(4). There is a polish for everything that taketh away rust; and the polish for the heart is  the remembrance of God.’ The companions said , ‘Is not fighting with the infidels also like this?’ Lord Muhammad said, ‘No, although he fight until his sword be broken! ‘

(5).  Verily for God are one hundred loving kindnesses; one of which He hath sent down amongst men, quadrupeds and every moving thing upon the face of earth, and forgive one another; and then by it they are kind to each other; and by it the  animals of the wilds are kind to their young; and God hath  reserved ninety-nine loving kindnesses, by which He will be gracious  to His creatures on the last  day.

(6) . One hour’s meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of prayer.  

(7).  He who leaveth home in search of knowledge, walketh in the path of God.

(8).  When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise, discharge your trust; commit no fornication; be chaste; have no impure desires; withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad. The best of God’s servants are those who, when seen,  remind of God: and  the worst of God’s servants are those who carry tales about, to do mischief and separate friends, and seek for the defects of the good.

(9). Acquire knowledge. It  enableth its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lighteth the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude, our companion when friendless; it guideth us to happiness; it  sustaineth us in misery; it is an ornament amongst  friends, and an armour against enemies.

(10). With knowledge man rises to  the heights of goodness and to a noble position, associateth with sovereigns in this world, and attaineth to the perfection of happiness in  the next.

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12h May 2021                                                                                     G. R. Kanwal