Be honest to those who consider you trustworthy...
Be honest to those who consider you trustworthy, and be not a traitor to those who have been disloyal to you. عَلَيْكُمْ بِالصِّدْقِ فَإِنَّهُ مَعَ البِرِّ، وَهُمَا في الجَنَّةِ، وَاِيَّاكُمْ وَالكِذْبَ فَإِنَّهُ مَعَ الفُجُورِ وَهُمَا في النَّارِ. وَاسْأَلُوا اللَّهَ اليَقِيْنَ وَالمُعَافَاةَ؛ فَإِنَّهُ لَمْ يُؤْتَ أحَدٌ بَعْدَ اليَقِيْنِ خَيْراً مِنَ المُعَافَاةِ. وَلا تَحَاسَدُوْا وَلا تَبَاغَضُوا وَلا تَقاطَعُوْا. وَكُونُوا عِبَادَ اللَّهِ اِخْوَانَاً كَمَا أمَرَكُمُ اللَّهُ.
Be honest, for it’s akin to goodness and both reside in Paradise. Avoid telling lie, for it’s akin to badness and both dwell in Hell. Ask God for certainty and good health, for aside from certainty, nothing better than good health has been given to anybody. Avoid jealousy and hostility, and do not break your relations with people. Be brothers, O servants of God, to one another as God has ordered you.
اِذا رَأَيْتَ مِنْ أَخِيْكَ ثَلاثَ خِصَالٍ فَارْجُه: الْحَيَاءَ وَالاَمَانَةَ وَالْصِّدْقَ؛ وَاِذا لَمْ تَرَهَا فَلا تَرْجُهُ. Be hopeful about your brother (in faith), if in him you observe three virtues: chastity, trustfulness and truthfulness; and be hopeless about him, if he is bereft of them. عَلَيْكَ بِاليَأْسِ مِمَّا في أيْدِي النَّاسِ. Be hopeless of what people possess. تَواضَعُوا وَجالِسُوْا المَسَاكينَ تَكُونُوا مِنْ كُبَراءِ اللَّهِ؛ وَتَخْرُجُوا مِنَ الكِبْرِ.
Be humble and keep company with the poor to be glorified before God and saved from vanity. تَواضَعْ لِلْمُحْسِنِ اِلَيْكَ؛ وَاِنْ كانَ عَبَْداً حَبَشِيَّاً؛ وَانْتَصِفْ مِمَّنْ أَسَاءَ اِلَيْكَ؛ وَاِنْ كانَ حُرَّاً قُرَشِيَّاً. Be humble to the one who is kind to you, though being an Ethiopian slave, and avenge the one who does evil to you, though being a freeman of the Quraish. تَواضَعُوْا لِمَنْ تَعَلَّمُونَ مِنْهُ؛ وَتَواضَعُوْا لِمَنْ تُعَلِّمُونَهُ؛ وَلا تَكُونُوا جَبَابِرَةَ العُلَمَاءِ.
Be humble to your teachers as well as to your students, and be not despotic scholars. عَلَيْكُمْ بِالتَّواضُعِ فَاِنَّ التَّواضُعَ في القَلْبِ، وَلا يُوذِيَنَّ مُسْلِمٌ مُسْلِمَاً. Be humble, for humility lies in one’s heart, and a Muslim should not annoy other Muslims. اِذا حَكَمْتُمْ فَاْعْدِلُوا؛ وَاِذا قُلْتُمْ فَأَحسِنُوا فَاِنَّ اللَّهَ مُحْسِنٌ يُحِبُّ الُْمحْسِنينَ. Be just in issuing judjement and speak well when uttering words, for God is good and loves good- doers.
أَشْفِقُوا تُحْمَدُوا وَتُؤْجَرُوا. Be kind to be praised and rewarded. اَبْدِ الْمَوَدَّةَ لِمَنْ وَادَّكَ؛ فَاِنَّها أَثْبَتُ.
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