Islam and Hadis

Tuesday, 29 November 2011

Usury

USURY
48.Gold is to be paid by gold, silver by silver, wheat by wheat, barley by
barley, dates by dates and salt by salt, like for like, payment being made on
the spot. If anyone gives more or asks for more, he has dealt in usury. The
receiver and the giver are equally guilty.
(Muslim).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).
49.A time is coming to mankind when only the receiver of usury will remain and
if he does not receive it, some of its vapour will reach him.
(Ahmad, Abu Dawud, Nasai, Ibn Majah).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).
50.A dirham which a man knowingly receives in usury is more serious (a crime)
than thirty-six acts of fornication.
(Ahmad, Daraqutni).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).
51.When a man makes a loan to another, he must not accept a present.
(Bukhari).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).
52.Even though usury be much it leads in the end to penury.
(Ibn Majah, Baihaqi).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).
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Hoarding

HOARDING
40.If anyone keeps goods till the price rises, he is a sinner.
(Muslim).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).
41.He who brings goods for sale is blessed with good fortune, but he who keeps
them till the price rises is accursed.
(Ibn Majah, Darimi).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).
42.If anyone withholds grain for forty days thereby desiring a high price, has
renounced God and God has renounced him.
(Razin).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).
43.The man who withholds goods is evil. If God lowers prices he is grieved, and
if He raises then he is happy. (Baihaqi).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).
INSOLVENCY AND RESPITE
44.He who grants a respite to one who is in straightened circumstances or who
remits his debt, will be saved by God from the anxieties of the Day of
Resurrection.
(Muslim).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).
45.If anyone accepts others belongings meaning to pay back, God will pay back
for him, but if anyone accepts them meaning to squander them, God will on that
account destroy his property.
(Bukhari).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).
46.Every fault but a debt will be forgiven to a martyr.
(Bukhari).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).
47.A believer's soul is attached to his debt till it is paid.
(Shafi'i, Ahmad, Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah, Darimi).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).

Monday, 28 November 2011

spending

SPENDING
36.If you spend (to help others), O son of Adam! I [God] shall spend on you.
(Bukhari, Muslim).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).
37.It is better for a man to give a dirham as Sadqa during his lifetime than to
give a hundred at the time of his death.
(Abu Dawud).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).
38.Do not consider any act of kindness insignificant, even meeting your brother
with a cheerful face.
(Muslim).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).
39.Sadqa given to a poor man is just Sadqa, but when given to a relative it
serves a double purpose, being both Sadqa and a connecting link.
(Ahmad, Tirmidhi, Nasai, Ibn Majah, Darimi).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).

those who are not allowed to beg

THOSE WHO ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BEG
33.He who begs the property of others to increase his own is asking only for
live coals, so let him ask little as much.
(Muslim).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).
34.It is better for one of you to take a rope, bring a load of firewood on his
back, and sell it, God thereby preserving his self respect, than that he should
beg from people whether they give him anything or refuse him.
(Bukhari).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).
35.If anyone guarantees me that he will not beg from people, I will guarantee
him paradise.
(Abu Dawud, Nasa'i).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).

Remembrance of Allah

REMEMBRANCE OF ALLAH
18.People will not sit remembering God without the angels surrounding them,
mercy covering them, peace descending on them.
(Muslim).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).
19.He who remembers his Lord and he who does not are like the living and dead.
(Bukhari, Muslim).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).
20.Hadhrat Jaabir (Allah be pleased with him) narrates that Muhammad (peace be
upon him) said: "The distinguishing factor between kufr and Imaan is the
deliberate neglect of Salaat."
(Muslim).
(Hayaat-ul-Muslimeen. by Mohammad Ashraf Ali Thanvi).
21.He who does a good deed will have ten times the amount of blessings, and I
[God] shall give more, but he who does an evil deed will have an equivalent
reward of evil, or I shall grant forgiveness. If anyone draws the length of a
span near Me, I shall draw the length of a cubit near him, and if anyone draws
the length of a cubit near Me, I shall draw the length of a fathom near him. If
anyone comes to Me walking I shall come to him at a run, and if anyone meets me
with sins of the size of the earth, but has not associated anything with Me, I
shall meet him a similar amount of forgiveness.
(Muslim).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).
22.Hadhrat Jaabir (Allah be pleased with him) narrates that Muhammad (peace be
upon him) said: "Salaat is the key to Jannat."
(Darami).
(Hayaat-ul-Muslimeen. by Mohammad Ashraf Ali Thanvi).
23.Hadrhat Abdulah Ibn Qart (Allah be pleased with him) narrates that Muhammad
(peace be upon him) said: "The first act about which one will be questioned on
the Day of Qiyammah will be Salaat. If Salaat is found to be proper, other acts
will pass as proper. But, if Salaat is found there to be despoiled, then all
other acts too will fail."
(Tibrani, Ausat).
(Hayaat-ul-Muslimeen. by Mohammad Ashraf Ali Thanvi).
24.Hadhrat Hanzalah (Allah be pleased with him) narrates that he heard Muhammad
say: "Whoever guards the five Salaat while believing that the Salaat is the
Right of Allah, will enter Jannat."
(Ahmad).
(Hayaat-ul-Muslimeen. by Mohammad Ashraf Ali Thanvi).
25.Hadhrat Bareedah (Allah be pleased with him) narrates that Muhammad (peace be
upon him) said: "The subject of pledge which exists between the people and us
(the Ambiyaa) is Salaat. Thus, whoever neglects Salaat has become a kaafir (i.e.
in terms of practical life, not in terms of Imaan)."
(Ahmad, Tirmidhi, Nisai, Ibn Majah).
(Hayaat-ul-Muslimeen. by Mohammad Ashraf Ali Thanvi).
26.A time will come to mankind when man will not care whether what he gets comes
from a lawful or an unlawful source.
(Bukhari).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).
27.Hadhrat Abu Hurairah (Allah be pleased with him) narrates that Muhammad
(peace be upon him) said: "Will there remain any impurity on a person who baths
five times a day in a river flowing in front of his house?" The people said: "No
impurity will remain on him." Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "This is the
effect of the five Salaat. By means of it, Allah Ta'ala purifies the performer
of all sins."
(Bukhari, Muslim).
(Hayaat-ul-Muslimeen. by Mohammad Ashraf Ali Thanvi).
28.Hadhrat Abdur Rahmaan Bin Amr Bin Al-A's (Allah be pleased with him) narrates
that Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "Salaat on the Day of Qiyaamah, will be
a light, a proof and a means of salvation for the one who guarded it. He who
neglects Salaat, will have no light, no proof and no salvation (from the
direction of Salaat) He (the one who neglects Salaat) will be in the company of
Qaroon, Fir'oun, Haamaan and Ubay Ibn Khalf on the Day of Qiyaamah."
(Ahmad, Darami, Baihaqi, Shu'bul Imaan).
(Hayaat-ul-Muslimeen. by Mohammad Ashraf Ali Thanvi).
29.No body which has been nourished with what is unlawful will enter paradise.
(Baihaqi).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).
30.Flesh which has grown out of what is unlawful will not enter paradise, but
hell is more fitting for all flesh which has grown out of what is unlawful.
(Ahmad, Darimi, Baihaqi).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).
31.The truthful and trusty merchant is associated with the prophets, the upright
and the martyrs.
(Tirmidhi, Darimi, Daraqutni).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).
32.If anyone buys a garment for ten dirhams among which one is unlawfully
acquired, God most high will not accept prayer from him as long as he wears it.
(Bukhari).
(Sayings of Muhammad. by Prof. Ghazi Ahmad).