Al-Mundhiri on remembering death, living for Allah
“The best of you are those with the longest lives and best deeds.”
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Al-Mundhiri on supplication to Allah
“Supplication is worship itself,”
Slave girls showing their naked breasts?
“O Prophet, tell your wives, your daughters, and the believing women…”
Forty Hadith on Purification of the Heart
“Wealth and poverty are in the heart.”
Al-Mundhiri on honesty, truthfulness, and trustworthiness
“Verily, truthfulness leads to righteousness,”
Al-Mundhiri on kindness, gentleness, and forbearance
“Allah is kind and he loves kindness in all matters.”
Al-Mundhiri on modesty, obscenity, and shamelessness
“Be modest before Allah, as is his right.”
Good character, the path to salvation in Islam
“I have only been sent to perfect righteous character.”
Must a Muslim woman cover her face?
“Tell the believing women to lower their gaze…”
Humility, modesty, and forbearance in Islam
“Verily, Allah has revealed to me that you must be humble towards one another, so that no one wrongs another or arrogantly boasts to another.”
Al-Nawawi on valuable lessons
“If a judge makes a ruling, striving to apply his reasoning and he is correct, then he will have two rewards; and if a judge makes a ruling, striving to apply his reasoning and he is mistaken, then he will have one reward.”
–Sahih Muslim 1716
Can women lead men in prayer?
“The best rows for men are the front rows and the worst are the back rows. The best rows for women are the back rows and the worst are the front rows.”
–Sahih Muslim 440
Al-Nawawi on truthfulness and honesty
“Verily, truthfulness leads to righteousness.”
Al-Nawawi on modesty, shyness, and good conscience
“The Prophet was more shy than a virgin in seclusion.”
Are women deficient in intelligence in Islam?
“We never asked Aisha anything but that we found her knowledgeable.”
Adult breastfeeding in Islam?
“The Prophet devised a clever way to put Abu Hudhayfa at ease.”