Monday, 5 August 2013

How should a Good Muslim Be?

How should a Good Muslim Be?
By Umme Muhammad

You can never be a good Muslim until you have Good Manners and Good character.

Islam is just not a religion which is practiced in the masjids . It has to be implemented 24 x 7 . The way you walk the way you talk the way to behave should be Islamic. If there are two men fighting on the road people check if its a Muslim then its nothing serious they always fight.

Beautiful Teachings of Prophet Muhammed(pbuh) to uplift our character and promises of paradise ...
▣ The Prophet (pbuh) said: I guarantee a house in the surroundings of Paradise for a ☛ man who avoids quarrelling even if he were in the right, a house in the middle of Paradise for a man ☛ who avoids lying even if he were joking, and a house in the upper part of Paradise for a man ☛who made his character good. (Dawud)

We give to those who give us but we also give to those who avoid us and stop the enmity Prophet saws in this way didn't like enmity in hearts either

▣ Prophet (pbuh) Said ☛ Shake hands and rancour will disappear. ☛ Give presents to each other and ☛ love each other and enmity will disappear. (Malik)

Anger is the root cause of all evils so shun anger as you shun forbidden food 
▣ A man came to the Prophet, may the mercy and blessings of God be upon him raise his name, and asked what he needed to do to get to Paradise, so the Prophet told him: ☛ “Do not get angry.” (Bukhari)

We all aim to be the best but the definition of the best according to the Prophet is .......

▣ “The best of people are those with the most ☛ excellent character.” (Tabarani)

▣ "Nothing will be placed in the balanced heavier than ☛ good behavior, and a person with ☛ good behavior will attain the rank of one who fasts in the days and prays in the nights”.(Tirmidhi)

We try our best to expose others weaknesses and hide our own but see the beautiful HAdith....

▣ “If a person covers the ☛weakness of another in this world, Allah will cover their weakness in the hereafter.” (Muslim)

▣ The best of you in Islam are those who are ☛most excellent in character as long as you deeply understand the religion.” (Ahmad)

Allah loves forgiving nature of a human being so much that he will forgive those who forgive What is better than getting forgiveness

▣ The Prophet (pbuh) said: The Compassionate One has ☛ mercy on those who are merciful. If you ☛ show mercy to those who are on the earth, He Who is in the heaven will show mercy to you. (Dawud)

Fulfilling promises if we make. Also InshaAllah we say sometimes when we do not actually intend to do something just to satisfy the person we say it so is also like a false promise. Punctuality when given a time to reach at the appropriate time is necessary.

▣ The Prophet (pbuh)said: When a man makes a promise to his brother with the ☛ intention of fulfilling it and does not do so, and does not come at the appointed time, ☛ he is guilty of no sin. (Dawud)

Being impartial with sons and daughters wherein many cultures prefer the son over the daughter and depriving the females of inheritance is wrong and forbidden

▣ The Prophet(pbuh) said: If anyone cares for three daughters, disciplines them, marries them, and ☛does good to them, ☛he will go to Paradise.(Dawud)

▣ Prophet(pbuh) said, ☛ 'Make your character good for the people. (Malik)

Below are more Hadith which specify the need of good character in our lives A muslim is not selfish He is selfless. He goes out of the way to help fellow muslims

▣ We were sitting with 'Abdullah bin 'Amr who was narrating to us (Hadith): He said, "Allah's Apostle was neither a Fahish nor a Mutafahhish, and he used to say, 'The best among you are the ☛ best in character (having good manners)."(Bukhari)

▣ The Prophet (pbuh) said: There is nothing heavier than ☛good character put in the scale of a believer on the Day of Resurrection. (Dawud)

▣ A person asked Allah's Apostle. "What (sort of) deeds in or (what qualities of) Islam are good?" He replied, ☛ "To feed (the poor) and ☛greet those whom you know and those whom you don't know." (Bukhari)

▣ The Prophet (pbuh) said: He who ☛does not accept an invitation which he receives has ☛disobeyed Allah and His Apostle of, and he who ☛enters without invitation enters as ☛ a thief and goes out as a raider. (Dawud)

And finally good behavior with parents. Most of the time many educated people and people with good Islamic knowledge are very well behaved when among their friends or colleagues but when it comes to parents they don't see eye to eye.

▣ The Prophet (pbuh) said: Do not detest ☛ your fathers; he who detested his father ☛committed infidelity. (Muslim)

▣ A man came to Allah's Apostle and said, "O Allah's Apostle! Who is more entitled to be treated with the best companionship by me?" The Prophet said, ☛"Your mother." The man said. "Who is next?" The Prophet said, ☛"Your mother." The man further said, "Who is next?" The Prophet said, ☛"Your mother." The man asked for the fourth time, "Who is next?" The Prophet said, ☛"Your father. " (Bukhari)

O Allah forgive our sins and all those whom we hurt and O Allah bestow us with good character Aameen

Written by Umme Muhammad
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