So, this is how you should become!

So, this is how you should become!’’ (An extract, see the full Hadith in the following section) [1] Introduction: Some Ahadith are presented here to raise our spiritual status to inch closer to the status of a true believer (Insha Allah -azwj – God Willing): روضة الواعظين شي، تفسير العياشي عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ كَانَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع يَقُولُ‏ إِنَّ لِأَهْلِ التَّقْوَى عَلَامَاتٍ يُعْرَفُونَ بِهَا صِدْقُ الْحَدِيثِ وَ أَدَاءُ الْأَمَانَةِ وَ وَفَاءٌ بِالْعَهْدِ وَ قِلَّةُ الْعَجْزِ وَ الْبُخْلِ وَ صِلَةُ الْأَرْحَامِ وَ رَحْمَةُ الضُّعَفَاءِ وَ قِلَّةُ الْمُؤَاتَاةِ لِلنِّسَاءِ وَ بَذْلُ الْمَعْرُوفِ وَ حُسْنُ الْخُلُقِ وَ سَعَةُ الْحِلْمِ وَ اتِّبَاعُ الْعِلْمِ فِيمَا يُقَرِّبُ إِلَى اللَّهِ‏ طُوبى‏ لَهُمْ وَ حُسْنُ مَآبٍ‏ (The book) ‘Rowzat Al Waizeen’, (and) Tafseer Al Ayyashi – from Abu Baseer, ‘From Abu Ja’far -asws having said: ‘Amir Al-Momineen -asws had said: ‘For the people of piety there are signs they are recognised with – truthful narration, and fulfilling the entrustment, and loyalty with the pact, and scarcity of the frustration and the stinginess, and connecting the kinship, and mercy to the weak, and scarcity of going to the women, and exerting the act of kindness, and good manners, and vast forbearance, and pursuing the knowledge in what draws one closer to Allah -azwj – (the tree of) Tooba would be for them and an excellent resort [13:29] .

وَ طُوبَى شَجَرَةٌ فِي الْجَنَّةِ أَصْلُهَا فِي دَارِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ فَلَيْسَ مِنْ مُؤْمِنٍ إِلَّا وَ فِي‏ دَارِهِ غُصْنٌ مِنْ أَغْصَانِهَا لَا يَنْوِي فِي قَلْبِهِ شَيْئاً إِلَّا آتاه [أَتَاهُ‏] ذَلِكَ الْغُصْنُ And Tooba is a tree in the Paradise. Its roots are in the house of Rasool-Allah -saww . There isn’t from a Momin except and in his house is a branch from its branches. He will not intend anything in his heart except that branch will bring it to him.

وَ لَوْ أَنَّ رَاكِباً مُجِدّاً سَارَ فِي ظِلِّهَا مِائَةَ عَامٍ مَا خَرَجَ مِنْهَا وَ لَوْ أَنَّ غُرَاباً طَارَ مِنْ أَصْلِهَا مَا بَلَغَ أَعْلَاهَا حَتَّى يَبْيَاضَّ هَرَماً And if a diligent rider were to ride in its shade for one hundred years, he would not come out from it, and if a crow were to fly from its roots, it would not reach its top until it would be grey-haired out of old age.