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Concerning the Advice the Messenger of Allah gave to Abu Dharr al-Giffari (Says the Sheikh) that my master, father, may Allah increase his life-span Al Fadl bin al Hasan said,"These pages are of the advice of the Messenger of Allah (s) that he gave to Abu Dharr al Giffari ." (Then he gives the whole chain of narrators tracing it from Sheikh Mufeed and Sheikh Abu Ja'far Muhammad bin Hasan Babweih up to Abu al Aswad).
So he said,"Yes, and how noble you
are Oh Abu Dharr! Most surely You are from us, the Ahl
Al Bait (a), and I am giving You advise so remember it,
for surely it is the collection of (all) the paths of
goodness. Surely if You memorize them and put them into
practice (hafiztaha), You will have by it `Kiflan'."
(Two folds of mercy, in this world and the hereafter)
Oh Abu Dharr! "Worship Allah as if
You see Him and if You weren't seeing Him (You must
understand that) surely He sees You. Know You that the
first of worship of Allah is (Ma'rifa) gnosis, for He is
surely the first before every other thing, so there is
nothing before Him, The singlemost without any second,
the continuing but not to an end. He is the Creator of
the heavens and earth and whatever is in them and
between them and He is the Subtle, the Aware, and He has
power over all things; then (the second most important
factor in the worship of God is) belief in me and
acknowledgment that Allah sent me to all of humanity as
a bearer of glad tidings, a warner, a caller (of people)
to Allah by His permission and a illuminating torch of
light; Then (the third most important factor in God's
worship is) the love of the people of my house, Those
from whom Allah has removed (from them) every impurity
and purified them a perfect purification.(33:33)
"You must know Abu Dharr that Allah, the Great and Majestic, has made the `Ahl al Bait' in my nation the likeliness of the ship of Nuh (Noah) whoever rides it is saved and whoever desires other than it is drowned. He has made them the likeliness of the Gate of Jericho among the Banu Israel, whoever enters the gate is safe. Oh Abu Dharr! "Safeguard what I am
advising You, You will be happy in this world and next."
Oh Abu Dharr! There are two
blessings seriously taken for granted (misused) by
mankind, health and spare time.
Oh Abu Dharr! Take advantage of
five things before five things seize you; Your youth
before Your old age, your health before your sickness,
Your wealth before your poverty, your spare time before
your being busy and your life before you death.
Oh Abu Dharr! Beware of
Procrastination for you are (in) today and not (in)
tomorrow. If there is a tomorrow for you, be tomorrow as
you are today. If there isn't a tomorrow for you, you
will grievously regret the opportunity you missed today.
Oh Abu Dharr! How many a person
there is who has met a day he didn't complete! How many
a waiter there is of tomorrow who doesn't find it!
Oh Abu Dharr! Had you known the
exact period of time you will live you would hate hopes
and their deception.
Oh Abu Dharr! Be in the world as if
you are a stranger or like one simply passing by as in a
journey and count yourself as among the people of the
graves.
Oh Abu Dharr! When you wake up in
the morning don't talk to yourself about tonight and
when night has come don't worry of the mourning for
surely you don't know what your state will be tomorrow.
Oh Abu Dharr! Beware that may not
over take you a fatal accident during stumbling. The
stumbling will not be averted. It will not be possible
to return (to correct your mistake). Will not praise you
the one you left behind of what you left behind. Will
not excuse you, the one you will meet (Allah), of what
you were so busy conducting (in the world, carelessly).
Oh Abu Dharr! Be greedier, in terms
of your time (life span) more than of your gold and
silver coins (wealth).
Oh Abu Dharr! Does any of you wait
for but wealth that will make him oppressive or poverty
that will make him a forgotten thing or sickness that
will destroy or old age that will not permit him to do
anything but sit, or death that will finish him off, or
the great deceiver, Dajjal - surely he is the most evil
of those things awaited; or the hour (Day of Judgment)
which is more calamitous and bitter. Most surely the
worst of men in position with Allah on the Day of
Judgment is he who didn't benefit from his knowledge. He
who seeks knowledge in order to divert peoples attention
towards himself will surely not smell the fragrance of Oh Abu Dharr! He who seeks
knowledge to deceive by it others will not even smell
the fragrance of Oh Abu Dharr! When you are asked of
some knowledge you know not of say, "I do not know!" You
will be saved of it's consequences. Don't make judgment
of that which you haven't knowledge, you will be saved
from the wrath of Allah on the Day of Judgment.
Oh Abu Dharr! There will be a day
when a group of people of
Oh Abu Dharr! Surely the rights
Allah (s) has over us are greater than his servant can
possibly fulfill! Surely the favors of Allah are more
than His servants can ever encompass. This is why they
pass night and day repenting.
Oh Abu Dharr! You are surely in the
passing of night and day where terms are short, deeds
are recorded and death comes suddenly. Whoever sows good
is on the verge of reaping good and whoever sows evil is
on the verge of reaping regret. And for every sower in
the like of that which he sowed. Will not pass a slow
person even a moment and a greedy person will not reach
that which is not destined for him. Whoever is given
good, Allah gave it to him and whoever is protected from
evil, then Allah protected him.
Oh Abu Dharr! The pious are the
masters. And the learned are the leaders. Keeping their
company is increase (in good). Surely the believer sees
his sin as if it is a boulder, he fears that it will
fall on him and surely the unbeliever sees his sin as if
it is a fly passing on his nose.
Oh Abu Dharr! Surely Allah (s),
when He wills good for a servant he puts his sins before
his two eyes. When he wills bad for a servant he makes
him forget his sins.
Oh Abu Dharr! Don't look at the
smallness of the sin but look at the one you disobeyed.
Oh Abu Dharr! Surely the believer
is stronger in his fleeing from sin than a sparrow when
thrown from his nest.
Oh Abu Dharr! He whose words
conform with his deed so he is the one who has attained
his share. He whose words don't conform with his deed
then he is only destroying himself.
Oh Abu Dharr! Surely a mans
sustenance is prohibited (from reaching him) because of
a sin he did.
Oh Abu Dharr! Leave that which you
have nothing to do with. Do not speak of that which does
not concern you, and guard your tongue like you guard
your money.
Oh Abu Dharr! Surely Allah,
glorious is His praise, will enter a people into
paradise and will give them until they are weary and
above them there will be a people in the highest grades.
So when they will look to them they will recognize them
so they will say. "Oh our Lord, they are our brothers,
we use to be together in the world so why have you
favored them over us." So it will be said, "Far from it,
far from it! Surely they used to be hungry while you
were satiated, they used to be thirsty while you were
quenched, they used to stand (in prayer) while you used
to sleep, they used to rise (take a stand) while you
used to go low (be passive, relax).
Oh Abu Dharr! Allah, glorious is
His praise, has made the pleasure of my eye in Salat,
and has made me to love the Salat like food is made
loveable to the hungry and water to the thirsty. And
surely the hungry one, when he eats, he is satiated and
the thirsty one, when he drinks he is quenched but I am
not satiated from Salat.
Oh Abu Dharr! Anyone who
voluntarily does 12 raka't other than the obligatory, he
has a sure right to a house in paradise.
Oh Abu Dharr! Surely, so long as
you are in Salat, you are knocking on the door of the
Great King, and whoever knocks much on the door of the
King it will be opened for him.
Oh Abu Dharr! There is no believer
that stands in prayer but falls on him goodness (birr)
what is between him and the Throne. And an angel is
appointed for him that calls out, "Oh son of Adam, if
you knew what there is for you in Salat and who you are
calling, you would not turn away.
Oh Abu Dharr! The Salat is the pillar of the religion (deen) and the tongue is greater; and charity wipes out sin and the tongue is greater; and Fasting is a shield against the fire and the tongue is greater; and jihad is nobility and the tongue is greater. Oh Abu Dharr! A degree in heaven is above a degree (like steps) like what is between the sky and earth. And surely the servant raises his eye and light dazzles it, almost snatching his sight, so he is shocked by it and says, "What is this?" So it is said, "This is the light of your brother." So he will say, "My brother so and so? We use to work together in the world and he has been so much favored over me?" So it will by said, "He surely was better than you in deeds." Then will be put in his heart satisfaction until he is satisfied. On Abu Dharr! This world is the prison of the believer and the paradise of the unbeliever. And no believer wakes up but is grieved in it. And how can he not be grieved in it when Allah has sworn that it will take him to Hell and He didn't promise him that it will deliver him from it, and that he shall meet (in it) sicknesses and hardships and matters which will anger him and he will be wronged in it and won't be helped. He seeks reward from Allah and continues to be in grief (in it)until he departs from it. And when he departs from it, he attains to comfort and honor. Oh Abu Dharr! Allah (s), has not been worshipped with a thing like that of length of grief. Oh Abu Dharr! Whoever is given
knowledge which doesn't cause him to cry simply because
he has been given knowledge, it will not benefit him.
Allah has described the learned and said, "Surely those
who were given knowledge before it, when it is recited
onto them they fall upon their faces in prostration and
they say, "Glory be to our Lord. Surely the promise of
Allah shall be done." They fall on their faces crying
and they increase in humility.
Oh Abu Dharr! Whoever is able to cry, let him cry. Whoever isn't able to cry then let him have his heart feel sadness and let him try to cry. Surely the hard heart is far from Allah (s), but they don't realize. Oh Abu Dharr! Allah (s) says, "I will not combine for my servant two fears nor two safeties. So when he feels safe from me in the world, I make him fear on the Day of Judgement. And when he fears me in the world, I give him safety on the Day of Judgement." Oh Abu Dharr! If a man had the deeds of 70 prophets he would be looked down upon and it is feared that he will not be saved from the evils of the Day of Judgement. Oh Abu Dharr! Surely the servant will be shown his sins on the Day of Judgement with him who did his sins (also) so he will say, "As for me, I was afraid, feeling anxiety (about my sins) so he will be forgiven. Oh Abu Dharr! Surely the man does a
good deed and he trusts (depends) on it and he (also)
does despised deeds until Allah comes to him while
angry. Surely the man who does an evil deed and he is
afraid of it (its consequence) he will come safely on
the Day of Judgment.
Oh Abu Dharr! Surely the servant
commits a sin, so he is made to enter into heaven by it!
So I said, "And how is that? By my mother and father Oh
Messenger of Allah (s)." He said, "That sin in front of
his eyes makes him repentant of it, fleeing to Allah (s)
(from it), until he enters heaven!"
Oh Abu Dharr! Smart is the one who
subjugates himself and acts for that which is after
death, and weak is the one who follows his self and its
caprice and then hopes in Allah so many a hope.
Oh Abu Dharr! Surely the first
thing which will be removed from this community (Ummat)
is safekeeping (amaanat) and humbleness until it will
hardly be seen fearful (of God)
Oh Abu Dharr! By Him in whose hand
the soul of Muhammad is in (s), if the world was equal,
with Allah, to that of a wing of a fly, the unbeliever
wouldn't even get from it a glass of water.
Oh Abu Dharr! The world is cursed!
Is cursed what is in it except that by which Allah's
face is sought. And there is nothing more hateful to
Allah than the world. He created it then left it so He
didn't look at it and will not look at it until stands
the hour (Day of Judgement). And there is nothing more
loveable to Allah than faith (eeman) in Him and
abandoning of that which He ordered to be abandoned.
Oh Abu Dharr! Surely Allah (s), revealed to my brother Isa (a), "Oh Isa! Don't love the world for surely I don't love it and love the Hereafter for surely it is the house of return." Oh Abu Dharr! Surely Jibreel (a)
came to me with the treasures of the world and said, "Oh
Muhammad (s)! This is the treasures of the world (for
you) and it will not decrease of your share (in the
Hereafter) with your Lord." So I said, "My beloved
Jibreel! I have no need of it. When I'm satiated I thank
my Lord and when I'm hungry I ask Him."
Oh Abu Dharr! When Allah wants good for a servant He gives him understanding in religion and makes him abstemious in the world and makes him to see his own faults. Oh Abu Dharr! No servant abstains
in the world but Allah causes wisdom to grow in his
heart, and causes his tongue to utter it, and gives him
insight of the faults of the world and its sickness and
its cure and causes him to leave from it safely into the
abode of peace.
Oh Abu Dharr! When you see your
brother abstaining from worldliness, listen to him for
surely he is dictating wisdom. So I said, "Oh Messenger
of Allah (s), who is the most abstemious (zahid) of
mankind?" So he said, "One who doesn't forget the graves
and the deterioration (of the world) and leaves the
excess of the adornment of the world and prefers what
lasts over that which perishes and he doesn't count
tomorrow among his days and counts himself among the
dead.
Oh Abu Dharr! Allah didn't reveal
to me to amass wealth upon wealth. But He revealed to
me, "Glorify with the praise of your Lord and be among
the prostrating ones and worship your Lord until comes
to you the certainty."
Oh Abu Dharr! I wear coarse
clothing, sit on the floor lick my fingers, ride a
donkey without a saddle and have someone sit behind me.
So whoever does not like my manner, so he is not of me.
Oh Abu Dharr! Love of wealth and
honor are stronger in stripping a man of his religion
than two ferocious wolves in a cattle pen of sheep; so
they attack in it until mourning. So what will remain of
it?
So I said, "Oh Messenger of Allah
(s), the fearful humble lowly people who remember Allah
much, will they be the first among mankind to go to
heaven?" So he said, "No. But it will be the poor among
the muslims. They will come outstripping the necks of
mankind. Will say to them the Keepers of Heaven, "Like
that you are until you are given account of!" So they
will say, "About what shall we give account, for by
Allah we didn't own anything by which we could oppress
or do justice and we weren't given (wealth) so we could
withhold or give (to others) but we worshipped our Lord
until He called us so we answered.
Oh Abu Dharr! The world keeps our
hearts and bodies busy and Allah will ask us about what
we were favored with of His lawful (halal) so what about
that which we enjoyed in His unlawful (haram).
Oh Abu Dharr! I surely asked Allah,
magnificent is His praise, to make the sustenance of he
who loves me sufficient and to give the one who hates me
much wealth and children.
Oh Abu Dharr! Blessedness is for
those who are abstemious in the world, the longers of
the hereafter; they take the earth of Allah as a carpet
and its soil as a pillow and its water as perfume. They
read the book of Allah lowly and call Him loudly and
they cut themselves off from worldliness completely.
Oh Abu Dharr! Surely my Lord has
informed me so He said, "By My glory and majesty, no
servants attain to crying but I build for them a palace
in paradise that no one will be a partner with in it.
So I said, "Oh Messenger of Allah
(s), who among the believers is most intelligent?" He
said, "those that remember death most and prepare for it
in the best way.
On Abu Dharr! When light enters the
heart it expands and becomes spacious. I said, "So what
is the sign of that by my mother and father, Oh
Messenger of Allah (s)."He said, "Turning (one's
attention) to the eternal abode and keeping aloof from
the abode of deception and preparation for death before
it takes place."
Oh Abu Dharr! Fear Allah and don't
show mankind that you fear Allah so they honor you while
your heart is evil.
Oh Abu Dharr! Let there be for you
in everything a pious intention, even when it comes to
sleeping and eating.
Oh Abu Dharr! You must magnify the majesty of Allah in your heart. So don't remember him like the ignorant remembers Him in the presence of a dog saying, "Oh Allah disgrace him" and in the presence of a pig "Oh Allah disgrace him." Oh Abu Dharr! Surely Allah has
angels who are standing out of fear of Him. They won't
raise their heads until the trumpet shall be blown, the
sounding of the Hereafter. So they will all say, "Glory
be to You our Lord, and Your praise. We haven't
worshipped you as it is fit for You to be worshipped!"
Oh Abu Dharr! If a man had the
deeds of 70 prophets he would deem his deeds small
because of the hardship he will see on that day. If a
bucket of two baths were poured in the rising place of
the sun it would cause to boil, the skulls of those who
are witnessing its setting. And if Hell only exhaled one
sigh, no near angel nor messenger sent would remain but
would fall prostrate on his knees saying, "Lord have
mercy on my soul," until he will forget Ibrahim and
Ishaq and say, "My Lord, I am your Khaleel Ibrahim, so
don't forget me!"
Oh Abu Dharr! If a woman of the
people of paradise rose from the sky of the world in the
darkest night she would illuminate the earth more than
the moon does when it is full and would notice the
fragrance she emits, all the people of the earth. And if
a cloth of the garments of the people of paradise was
spread today in the world, would faint who ever looks at
it because of what their eyes are beholding.
Oh Abu Dharr! Lower your voice
during a funeral, during fighting and during the
recitation of the Qur'an.
Oh Abu Dharr! When you are in a
funeral procession, so let your mind be busy in
pondering and humbleness and know that you will meet the
same fate.
Oh Abu Dharr! Know that when
something gets spoiled then salt is its remedy and when
the salt is spoiled there is no remedy for it. And know
you that in you are two (dangerous) qualities; laughing
at something not amusing and laziness when not tired.
Oh Abu Dharr! Two moderate cycles
of prayer (rak'at) with pondering is better than
standing all night in prayer with a neglectful heart.
Oh Abu Dharr! The truth is heavy
and bitter and the falsehood in light and sweet and it
may be that the (fulfillment of the) desire of an hour
will yield a long period of grief.
Oh Abu Dharr! A man has not fully
understood until he sees mankind next to Allah as
camels, then he looks to himself and holds himself more
contemptible.
Oh Abu Dharr! You will not reach
the reality of faith until you see all of mankind as
fools in regards to their religion (deen) and
intelligent in regards to their worldly matters (dunya). Oh Abu Dharr! Take account of
yourself before you're taken account of so your
accounting will be easier tomorrow. And weigh yourself
before you are weighed and prepare for the great
staging; the day you will be presented, not the least of
a hidden thing of you will be hidden from Allah.
Oh Abu Dharr! Be shy of Allah for
surely by the One who my soul is in His hand, I always
feel embarrassed when I go to the bathroom; I cover
myself with my cloths because of the two angels with me.
Oh Abu Dharr! Would you like to
enter heaven? I said, "Yes, may my father by sacrificed
for thee." He said (s) , "So cut your hopes short and
put death before your eyes and feel shy of Allah, the
shyness due to Him." He said, I said, "Oh Messenger of
Allah, all of us feel shy of Allah." He said, "That is
not shyness; rather shyness is to not forget the graves
and deterioration and protecting your stomach and what
concerns it and the head and what it contains and
whoever wants the honor of the Hereafter, so let him
leave the embellishments of the worldly life. So if you
are like that, you have attained the Kingdom (walayat)
of Allah."
Oh Abu Dharr! Some supplication
with good deeds is sufficient just as some salt is
sufficient with food.
Oh Abu Dharr! The one who
supplicates without deed is like one who tries to shoot
his arrow without a string on his bow.
Oh Abu Dharr! Surely Allah, because
of the goodness of his servant, He betters the condition
of his whole family and even his neighbors and the
houses around him so long as he is with them.
Oh Abu Dharr! Surely your Lord (s)
boasts to the angels about three people: A man who is in
a deserted place (though alone), he calls azan and
iqamat and he prays. So your Lord says to the angels,
"Look at my servant! He's praying and no one sees him
but me." So descends 70,000 angels and pray behind him
and they seek forgiveness for him until the next day;
and a man who stands in the mid of night and prays alone
and does sajdah (prostrates) and falls asleep while
prostrating. So Allah (s) says, "Look to my servant! His
soul is with me and his body is prostrate" and a man who
is in a war and all his companions flee, but he stays
firm fighting until he is killed.
Oh Abu Dharr! No man puts his
forehead (in prostration) in a place of the places of
the earth but that place bears witness of that for him
on the Day of Judgement. There is no place that a people
visit but that place starts either sending salutation on
them or cursing them.
Oh Abu Dharr! There is no place of
lodging or departure of the places of the earth but they
call one another, "Oh neighbor, did anyone pass by you
who remembered Allah or worshipped by placing his
forehead on you in prostration to Allah?" So one says
yes and one says no. When one says yes, it shakes and
opens up (in happiness) and sees that it has (been
favored) a greater rank over its neighbor.
Oh Abu Dharr! Surely Allah, when He
created the earth and created what's in it of trees.
there was no tree that the children of Adam came to but
they got from it a benefit. The earth and the trees
remained like that until the evil of the children of
Adam started saying the grievous utterance. Their
saying, "Allah has taken a son." So when they said it
the earth trembled and the benefits of the trees went
away.
Oh Abu Dharr! The earth cries over
the believer when he dies for forty mornings.
Oh Abu Dharr! When a servant is in
a deserted place and does wudu or tayammum then he does
Azan and Iqamat and he prays. Allah (s) orders the
angels, so they form a row behind him where the two ends
of the row are not seen. They bow with his bowing and
prostrate with his prostrating and say Ameen for his
supplications.
Oh Abu Dharr! Whoever does Iqamah
without Azan, no one prays with him but the two angels
with him.
On Abu Dharr! No youth leaves the
world and he spent his youth in obedience to Allah but
Allah gives him the reward of 72 Siddiq (truthful near
servants).
Oh Abu Dharr! A remember (of Allah)
among the careless is like a warrior among the fleeing.
Oh Abu Dharr! A pious gathering is
better than being alone and being alone and being alone
is better than an evil gathering and speaking good is
better than silence and silence is better then speaking
evil.
Oh Abu Dharr! Don't accompany but a
believer and let no one eat your food but a pious person
and don't eat the food of the evil doers.
Oh Abu Dharr! Give your food to eat
to one who you love for Allah and eat the food of one
who loves you for Allah (s).
Oh Abu Dharr! Surely Allah (s) is
with the tongue of every speaker. So let every man fear
Allah and know what he is saying.
Oh Abu Dharr! Leave excessive
speech and is enough for you what you reach by it your
need.
Oh Abu Dharr! It is enough for a
man as a lie to say everything he hears.
Oh Abu Dharr! There is nothing more deserving of being imprisoned for (in Hell) than the tongue. Oh Abu Dharr! It is of respect to
Allah to honor an old Muslim man, and to honor a carrier
of the Qur'an who acts by it, and to honor a just ruler.
Oh Abu Dharr! Has not acted, the
one who has not guarded his tongue.
Oh Abu Dharr! Do not be a seeker of
faults (in others) nor a person who over praises (others
in there face) , nor a defamer nor a wrangler.
Oh Abu Dharr! A servant continues
to increase in distance from Allah so long as his
behavior is bad.
Oh Abu Dharr! A good word (of advise) is sadaqah (charity) and every step you take towards Salat is (also) sadaqah. Oh Abu Dharr! Whoever answers the
caller of Allah and does well in inhabiting the masjids
of Allah, his reward from Allah is paradise. So I said,
"May my father and mother be sacrificed for you Oh
Messenger of Allah (s). How should the masjids of Allah
be inhabited?" He said, "Voices should not be raised in
them and useless matters should not be discussed in them
and things should not be bought and sold in them. Leave
foolish talk so long as you are in them and if you
don't, so don't blame on the Day of Judgement but
yourself."
Oh Abu Dharr! Surely Allah (s)
gives, so long as you're sitting in the masjid, for
every breath taken in it, a degree in paradise. And the
angels send blessings on you, and will be written for
you for every breath you take in it ten good deeds and
will be wiped out from you ten evil deeds.
Oh Abu Dharr! Do you know the
reason concerning which this verse was revealed? "Be
patient and exhort others to be patient and connect and
fear Allah that you may be successful." I said, "I don't
know. May my father and mother be sacrificed for you."
He said, "In waiting for the next Salat after every
Salat."
Oh Abu Dharr! Doing wudu well
during difficulties is among the things that wipe out
sins, and frequenting the masjids, that is connecting.
Oh Abu Dharr! Allah (s) says,
"Surely the most beloved of the servants to me are they
that love each other for my sake; they whose hearts are
attached to the masjids and the seekers of forgiveness
at dawn. They are the ones that when I want to punish
the people of the earth, I remember them, so I avert the
punishment from them."
Oh Abu Dharr! Every sitting in the
masjid is a waste except three; the recitation of one
offering prayers, the remembrance of Allah, and the
asking of knowledge.
Oh Abu Dharr! Be more concerned
about doing deeds with piety than just doing deeds.
Because it is not deemed little, that which is done with
piety. And how can a deed be deemed little which is
accepted? Allah (s) says, "Allah only accepts from the
pious."
Oh Abu Dharr! A man can not be
among the pious until his accounting of himself is
stronger than the accounting a (business) partner takes
of his partner. So he knows from where his food comes
from and from where his drink comes from and from where
his cloths come from; from a lawful means or from a
prohibited one.
Oh Abu Dharr! Whoever doesn't care
from where he earns his money, Allah (s) doesn't care
from where He will enter him into Hell.
Oh Abu Dharr! Whoever it pleases
that he may be the most honorable of mankind, let him
fear Allah.
Oh Abu Dharr! The most beloved of
you to Allah, magnificent is His praise, is the one who
remembers Him most. And the most honorable of you to
Allah is the most pious among you, and the most saved of
you from the punishment of Allah is the strongest of you
in awe of Him.
Oh Abu Dharr! Surely the God-fearing are they who are careful concerning those things which people are not generally concerned with, out of fear of falling into that which is doubtful. Oh Abu Dharr! Whoever obeys Allah
has remembered Him even if his prayers, fasting and
recitation of Qur'an is little.
Oh Abu Dharr! The king of religion
is piety and its crown is obedience.
Oh Abu Dharr! Be pious! You will be
the best in worship among mankind and the best of your
religion is piety.
Oh Abu Dharr! The Virtue of
knowledge is greater than that of worship. And know you
that if you prayed until your back becomes bent and you
fasted until you became thin as strings, that would not
benefit you unless it is done with piety.
Oh Abu Dharr! Surely the people of
piety and abstinence in this world, they are the real
friends of Allah.
Oh Abu Dharr! Whoever does not come on the day of Judgement with three qualities he has surely lost. So I said, "What are the three, may my mother and father be sacrificed for you?" He said, "Piety that prevents him from that which Allah the Great and Majestic has made haraam for him, and clemency (hilm) by which he refutes the ignorance of the fools and good manners (Khuluq) with which he deals with the people. Compiled by Sheikh al Jaleel Radiyu al Deen Abu Nasr al Hasan bin al Fadl al Tabrasi, one among the great scholars of the 6th Century A.H. Excerpted from introduction to " Who speaks, Abu zar" by Ali Shariati. |
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