A BELIEVER’S BEHAVIOUR

y y Answering a questioner with mildness is charity. Removing that which is inconvenience to wayfarers, such as thorns and stones is charity. (Tirmidhi) y y The leader of a people is truly their servant. (As-Suyuti) y y Faith (iman) is to restrain oneself against all violence, let no believer commit any violence. (Abu Dawud) y y God has forbidden you disobedience of parents, miserliness, false claims, and the burying alive of female infants (female foeticide). (Bukhari & Muslim) y y Give the worker his wages before his sweat dries. (Ibn Majah) y y The seller is under obligation to disclose any defect in the article offered for sale. (Bukhari) y y Someone asked the Prophet, ‘What fanaticism was?’ and he replied: “That you help your people in wrongdoing”. (Abu Dawud) y y That one will not enter Paradise whose neighbour is not secure against his mischief. (Muslim) y y He who believes in God and the Last Day must not put his neighbour to inconvenience. (Bukhari & Muslim) y y He is not a believer who eats to his fill while his neighbour goes without food. (Ibn Abbas, Al-Baihiqi) y y The Prophet said: “A person passing through a street carrying anything pointed or with a sharp edge should cover it up, so that nobody is exposed to the risk of injury due to his carelessness. (Muslim) y y Once when the Prophet was in retreat in the mosque he was disturbed by the sound of loud recitation. Raising the curtain, he said to the worshippers. “Look, you are all intent on beseeching God, but in so doing you must not trouble others. Don’t raise your voices to outdo each other while reciting the Quran.” y y He who eases the hardship of another, will have ease bestowed upon him by God in this world and the next... God goes on helping a servant so long as he goes on helping his fellow-men. (Muslim) y y The Prophet was very insistent upon kindness towards animals. On one occasion he noticed a dove flying around agitatedly, and discovered that somebody had caught its young. He was very annoyed and asked the person to restore the young to the mother immediately. (Abu Dawud)