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Islam:  Its Life and Values
Islam:  Its Life and Values
Islam: Its Life and Values
Islam:  Its Life and Values
Prominent Hadith
Selections from An-Nawawi’s
Forty Hadith
13th century
Tr. Ezzeddin Ibrahim, Denys Johnson-Davies
Prominent Hadith
The blood of a Muslim may not be legally spilt other than in one of three instances:
The married person who commits adultery
A life for a life
And One who forsakes his religion and abandons the community.
Hadith 14
Prominent Hadith
Part of someone’s being a good Muslim is leaving alone that which does not concern him.
Hadith 12
Prominent Hadith
None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.
Hadith 12
Prominent Hadith
Let him who believes in Allah and the Last Day either speak good or keep silent,
and let him who believes in Allah and the Last Day be generous to his neighbour,
and let him who believes in Allah and the Last Day be generous to his guest.
Hadith 15
Prominent Hadith
A man said to the Prophet (may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him):
Counsel Me.
He said:  Do not become angry.
The man repeated his request several times,
and he said: Do not become angry.
Hadith 16
Prominent Hadith
Fear Allah wherever you are,
And follow up a bad deed with a good one and it will wipe it out,
And behave well towards people.
Hadith 18
Prominent Hadith
Allah has pardoned for me my people for their mistakes
and their forgetfulness and for what they have done under duress.
Hadith 18
Prominent Hadith
A man asked the Messenger (may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him):
Do you think that if I perform the obligatory prayers, fast in Ramadan, treat as lawful that which is lawful and treat as forbidden that which is forbidden, and do nothing further,
I shall enter Paradise?
He said: Yes.
Hadith 22
Prominent Hadith
Purity is half of faith.
Alhamdu lillah fills the scales and Subhana llah and Alhamdu lillah fill that which is between heaven and earth.
Prayer is light; charity is a proof; patience is illumination;
and the Qur’an is an argument for or against you.
Everyone starts his day and is a vendor of his soul,
either freeing it or bringing about its ruin.
Hadith 22
Prominent Hadith
The Messenger of Allah (may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) took me by the shoulder and said:
Be in the world as though you were a stranger or a wayfarer.
At evening do not expect to live till morning, and at morning do not expect to live till evening.
Take from your health for your illness and from your life for your death.
Hadith 40
Prominent Hadith
I have been ordered to fight against people until they testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah and until they perform the Zakat,
And if they do so they will have gained protection from me for their lives and property,
Unless they do acts that are punishable in accordance with Islam
And their reckoning will be with Allah the Almighty.
Hadith 8
Prominent Hadith
Allah has written down the good deeds and the bad ones.  Then He explained it by saying that he who has intended a good deed and has not done it, Allah writes it down with Himself as a full good deed,
But if he has intended it and has done it, Allah writes it down with Himself as from ten good deeds to seven hundred times, or many times over.
But if he has intended a bad deed and has not done it, Allah writes it down with Himself as a full good deed,
but if he has intended it and has done it, Allah writes it down as one bad deed.
Hadith 37
Islam:  Its Life and Values
Characteristics of Islam
Devotion to God
Characteristics of Islam
True Religion (Islam)
Characteristics of Islam
Ritual Observance
Characteristics of Islam
Infidels (Non-Believers, Rejecters)
Characteristics of Islam
People of the Book
Characteristics of Islam
Relating to Muslims
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