Wednesday, 16 August 2006

Good character has 10 signs

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim
In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful


Al-Ghazali on Disciplining the Soul and Breaking the two Desires, Books XXII and XXIII of the Revival of the Religious Sciences.

Page 73.

Yusuf ibn Asbat said:

“Good character has ten signs: reluctance to argue, fairness, never hoping for slips in others, looking for a charitable interpretation of other’s misdeeds, finding excuses for them, tolerating the harm they do to one, blaming oneself, knowing one’s own faults and not those of others, meeting the young and old alike with a cheerful face, and speaking kindly to those who are superior or more humble than oneself.”




The Prophet sal Allahu alayhi wa'sallam said:
"The Muslim is a unique Ummah among the whole of mankind:
Their Land is ONE, their War is ONE, their Peace is ONE,
Their Honour is ONE and their Trust is ONE."
[Ahmad]

1 comment:

Aga Mama said...

subhanallah, very well said...hhhmmm, I think I need to start making some changes...