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Muslim, protecting your neighbor whether he be Muslim or a disbeliever,
honoring the aged Muslim, answering the invitation to food, the inviting of others,
bestowing pardon, making peace between people, liberality, nobility of character,
forbearance, being the first to extend greeting, repressing anger, pardoning
people, shunning what Islam forbids, namely, frivolous sports, vanity, song, all
musical instruments, revenge, guile, slander, falsehood, avarice, niggardliness,
rudeness, artifice, deception, calumny, wronging friendship, forsaking blood
kindred, bad moral character, haughtiness, boasting, self-conceit, arrogance,
pride, immoderation, foulness of language, rancor, envy, levity, injustice,
oppression and tyranny.
Anas ibn Malik said: “Muhammad, praise and peace be upon him, did not call out
„a fine counsel‟ without having induced and ordered us to follow it, nor did he call
out „fraud‟ or say „vice‟ or „disgraceful‟ but that he cautioned and prohibited us in
regard to it.” And this verse of the Koran will suffice for all of these maxims: “Allah
orders justice, and good deeds, and giving to one's kindred. …” (Ch.16 verse 90)
honoring the aged Muslim, answering the invitation to food, the inviting of others,
bestowing pardon, making peace between people, liberality, nobility of character,
forbearance, being the first to extend greeting, repressing anger, pardoning
people, shunning what Islam forbids, namely, frivolous sports, vanity, song, all
musical instruments, revenge, guile, slander, falsehood, avarice, niggardliness,
rudeness, artifice, deception, calumny, wronging friendship, forsaking blood
kindred, bad moral character, haughtiness, boasting, self-conceit, arrogance,
pride, immoderation, foulness of language, rancor, envy, levity, injustice,
oppression and tyranny.
Anas ibn Malik said: “Muhammad, praise and peace be upon him, did not call out
„a fine counsel‟ without having induced and ordered us to follow it, nor did he call
out „fraud‟ or say „vice‟ or „disgraceful‟ but that he cautioned and prohibited us in
regard to it.” And this verse of the Koran will suffice for all of these maxims: “Allah
orders justice, and good deeds, and giving to one's kindred. …” (Ch.16 verse 90)