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UNIT SIXTEEN – THE TONGUE

It was related from Abdullah ibn Amr, may Allah be pleased with him, that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “A Muslim is the one from whose tongue and hand the Muslims are safe. An emigrant (muhajir) is someone who abandons what Allah has forbidden.” (Sahih a

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UNIT FIFTEEN – PROPRIETY AND MODESTY

 As reported by Imran ibn Husayn, the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Modesty only brings good.” (Sahih al-Bukhari, Adab, 77; Sahih Muslim, Iman, 60).   NARRATOR Imran ibn Husayn 1. Imran ibn Husayn embraced Islam in the year 628, during the co

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UNIT FOURTEEN – PRIDE AND HUMILITY

Abdullah ibn Mas’ud, may Allah be well pleased with him, reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “No one who has an atom’s weight of pride in his heart will enter Paradise.” A man said, “And if the man likes his clothes to be good and his sandals to b

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UNIT THIRTEEN – MISERLINESS, GENEROSITY AND ALTRUISM

It is related that Abu Hurayra said that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “There is never a day wherein the servants (of Allah) get up in the morning, but are not visited by two angels. One of them says: ‘O Allah, give him more who spends (for the sake of Al

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UNIT TWELVE – SILA AR-RAHM (Observing Ties of Kinship)

Abu Hurayra said: “A man came to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and asked, ‘Messenger of Allah, what person is the most entitled to the best of my company?’ He answered, ‘Your mother.’ He asked, ‘Then whom?’ He said, ‘Your mother.’ He asked, ‘Then who

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UNIT ELEVEN – AMR BI-MA’RUF WA AN-NAHY AN AL-MUNKAR (Enjoining the Good and Forbidding the Evil)

Abu Said al-Khudri, may Allah be well pleased with him, said, “I heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, say: ‘Whoever of you sees something wrong should change it with his hand; if he cannot, then with his tongue; if he cannot, then with his heart, and

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UNIT TEN – AVOIDING INNOVATION

It is related that Aisha, may Allah be well pleased with her, said that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Anyone who introduces an innovation in this affair of ours which is not part of it, that will be rejected.” One version in Muslim reads: “He

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UNIT NINE – MUHASABA – MURAQABA (Self-Criticism and Self-Supervision)

Abu Ya’la ibn Shaddad ibn Aws, may Allah be well pleased with him, narrates that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “A wise person is one who keeps a watch over his bodily desires and passions, and checks himself from that which is harmful and striv

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UNIT EIGHT – PATIENCE

Suhayb ibn Sinan, may Allah be well pleased with him, reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “How wonderful is the situation of the believer, for all his affairs are good, and such a condition is only for a believer. If something good happ

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