Secure your properties by giving alms...

Secure your properties by giving alms, cure your patients through charity, and resort to praying to guard yourself against calamity. ● الأمْنُ وَالعَافِيَةُ نِعْمَتَانِ مَغْبُوْنٌ فيهَا كَثِيْرٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ. Security and health are two (divine) blessings most people lose. ● بَيْنَ يَدَيِ السَّاعَةِ فِتَنٌ كَقِطَعِ اللَّيْلِ. Sedition will arise before the Hour, as gloomy as parts of dark nights. ● سَتَكُونُ فَتِنٌ يُصْبِحُ الرَّجُلُ فيها مُؤْمِنَاً، Seditions will soon arise.

When believers in the morning will turn out to be disbelievers at night, save those ● قُلِ أللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْ سَريرَتِي خَيْرَاً مِنْ عَلانِيَتِي، وَاجْعَلْ عَلانِيَتِي صَالِحَةً. أللَّهُمَّ اِنِّي أسْأَلُكَ مِنْ صَالِحِ مَا تُؤْتِي النَّاسَ مِنَ المَالِ وَالأهْلِ وَالوَلَدِ غَيْرِ الضَّالِّ وَلا المُضِلِّ. Say: O God! make my inner self better than my outer self, and rectify the latter. O God!

I beg You to give me the good you have bestowed upon people, of wealth, family and children that are neither deviated nor deviating. ● صَلاةُ بِسِواكٍ أفْضَلُ مِنْ سَبْعِيْنَ صَلاةً بِغَيْرِ سِواكٍ. Saying prayer with one's teeth brushed weighs over seventy prayers said with unbrushed teeth. ● العلماءُ أمَنَاءُ اللَّهِ عَلى خَلْقِهِ. Scholars are God's trustees for people. ● العَالِمُ أَمِينُ اللَّهِ في الأرْضِ. Scholars are God's trustees on earth. ● البَذاءُ شُؤْمُ؛ وَسُوْءُ المَلَكَةِ لُؤْمٌ.

Scurrility incites enmity, and malice brings meanness. ● أُطْلُبُوا الْعِلْمَ وَلَوْ بِالصِّينِ؛ فَاِنَّ طَلَبَ الْعِلْمِ فَرِيضَةٌ عَلى كُلِّ مُسْلِمٍ، اِنَّ الْمَلآئِكَةَ تَضَعُ أَجْنِحَتَها لِطَالِبِ الْعِلْمِ رِضَاً بِمَا يَطْلُبُ. Search for knowledge even (if it is to be acquired) in China, for seeking knowledge is a precept for all Muslims, and angels spread their wings for the seekers of knowledge (to sit on) and derive pleasure from what they search for.

● أُطْلُبُوا العِلْمَ مِنَ الْمَهْدِ اِلَى اللَّحْدِ. Search for lore from the birth shore to the grave door. ● حَصِّنُوْا أمْوالَكُمْ بِالزَّكاةِ، وَداوُوا مَرْضاكُمْ بِالصَّدَقَةِ، وَأعِدُّوْا لِلْبَلاءِ الدُّعَاءَ. Secure your properties by giving alms, cure your patients through charity, and resort to praying to guard yourself against calamity. ● الأمْنُ وَالعَافِيَةُ نِعْمَتَانِ مَغْبُوْنٌ فيهَا كَثِيْرٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ. Security and health are two (divine) blessings most people lose.

● بَيْنَ يَدَيِ السَّاعَةِ فِتَنٌ كَقِطَعِ اللَّيْلِ. Sedition will arise before the Hour, as gloomy as parts of dark nights.