Introduction

God is One and Only

Abandoning the Present to Attain the Promised

Oppressive Characteristics

Characteristics Rooted in Love for Religion

One Characteristic for Five Characteristics

A Characteristic for a Characteristic

A Saving Characteristic

The Loftiest Characteristic of the Religion

No Two Things Combined which are Better than the Combination of Two Characteristics

A Characteristic that is the Honor of This World and the Hereafter

The Most Knowledgeable Person Is One who Combines One Characteristic with Another One

There Is One True Prosperity And One True Misery

A Characteristic for Which the People Deserve to be Rewarded or Punished

A Characteristic that Is the Noblest Holy War

The Hardest Thing is One Characteristic that Cannot Be Avoided Unless We Abandon Another Characteristic

A Believer’s Honor Is in One Characteristic and His Glory Is In Another Characteristic

One Characteristic Is the Key to All Evil

A Characteristic Due to Justice

A Characteristic Due to Which We Are Interested in How Others Judge About Us

Seek Nearness to God with One Characteristic

God Has Not Tested the Servants with Anything Harder Than One Characteristic

A Characteristic that Is the Result of Being Kind

A Characteristic that Stabilizes One’s Faith and One that Makes Him Lose His Faith

A Characteristic that Destroys a Believer’s Dignity

A Good Characteristic Which No Other Characteristic Is Better Than, and a Bad Characteristic That No Other Characteristic Is Worse Than

A Characteristic That Guarantees Who Will Not Become Poor

The Form of Chivalry of the Members of the Holy Household

A Characteristic Due to One’s Chivalry

A Characteristic that Is Not Good for a Dignified Man

God Loves One Characteristic and Despises One Characteristic

One Who has This Characteristic Would Not Be Thankful for Blessings

A Characteristic Due to Humbleness

A Characteristic that Is Close to Blasphemy and A Characteristic that Might Change Destiny

A Characteristic that Destroyed Previous Nations

Martyrdom Is Expiation for Every Sin Except for One’s Debt

God the Almighty Has Sent Muhammad (sw) and His Nation a Gift That He Has Not Given to Any Other Nation

A Characteristic that One Should Have If He Wants to Increase Goodness in His House

God Will Look at Whom He Likes. Once He Looks at Him, He Shall Grant Him One of Three Gifts

The Hereafter is the Wedding of the Pious Ones

A Characteristic That is Like its Opposite

The Most Wicked People Are Those Who Are Respected for Possessing One Characteristic

A Characteristic in This World is Abstinence, and a Characteristic That is Gratitude for all Blessings

Nothing Deserves to Be Restrained More Than the Tongue

Whoever Raises his Aspirations Does Wrong

Good Deeds Are Recorded for a Muslim as Long as He Remains Quiet

A Characteristic Having Which Will Result in God Saving You From the Fear of the Hereafter

The Most Intelligent Characteristic

The Most Pious, the Best Worshipping, the Most Ascetic and the Most Hard-Working People

Becoming Sorry Is the Same as Repenting

Whoever Earns More Than His Meals fom This World

A Characteristic That Deserves to Be Willed

A Characteristic That Causes One to Be Thrown Out and a Characteristic That Causes One to Be Joined

Lofty Characteristics and Bad Characteristics for the People of the World

There Is No Honor Except Through One Characteristic. There Is No Nobility Except Through Another Characteristic

When God Loves a Servant He Will Make Him Suffer from a Great Calamity

A Characteristic That Leads to Hemorrhoids

A Hand on Which There Is an Iron Ring Is Not Clean

Do Not Respond to Whoever Talks Before He Greets You

A Characteristic That if Practiced Implies Despise for Muhammad’s Religion

Only One of the Proverbs of the Prophets Has Remained

When God Wishes a Servant Well, He Will Expedite His Punishment in This World, and When He Wishes Someone Bad, He Will Procrastinate His Punishment

Be Patient with the Enemies of the Blessings

The Prophet (sw) and Ali Ibn Abi Talib Were Created from the Same Root

A Characteristic That is Gratitude for All Blessings

Religion Is the Same as Love

When Two Believers Shake Hands They Shall Depart from Each Other Void of Any Sins

A Characteristic That Revives the Hearts

A Characteristic That Revives the Affairs of the Almighty God’s Proofs

God the Almighty Has Not Created Anything More Delightful Than This Characteristic

A Characteristic That Constitutes Nine-Tenths of Religion

Whoever is Pleased with His Destiny or is Displeased with it

A Characteristic for Which Even Red-Haired Camels Are Not Loved

A Characteristic That Increases the Daily Bread

A Characteristic That Leads to Hypocrisy and Poverty

The First Gift Given to a Believer Due to a Characteristic

A Characteristic for Which One Who Has No Good Deeds is Forgiven on the Resurrection Day

A Characteristic That is the Root of All Sins

How Awkward It Is If a Man Enters Heaven Having Lost His Honor

A Characteristic Doing Which Will Cause the Almighty God to Have Mercy Upon You

A Characteristic Doing Which Will Cause Increased Good for One’s House

On Him Whose Health Has Overcome His Illness but He Treats Himself and Dies

A Characteristic Which a Believer Avoids

Nothing Ruins Faith as Much as One Characteristic Does

One Who Lives to See his Successor Is Prosperous

A Believer’s Honor is More Than That of the Ka’ba

It Suffices for a Believer to See God’s Aid in the Form of His Enemies Engaged in the Almighty God’s Disobedience

A Gift Will Eliminate Animosities

Prosperous Be the One Who is Indifferent

A Characteristic That Will Make One Poor in the Hereafter

A Group of People Who Are the Masters of Heaven

God’s Prophet Made His Ablutions One Organ at a Time

The Characteristic That Is the Best Goodness

The Prophet Put off His Special Prayer for One Characteristic

A Characteristic That is the Best Form of Worshipping and a Characteristic That is the Noblest Form of Being Religious

What Is A Lot but Its Doers Are A Few

A Characteristic That Constitutes Half of the Religion

A Characteristic That is the Best Thing Given to a Muslim

The Prophet and Ali Ibn Abi Talib Were Created from One Light

A Servant’s Well-Being Depends Upon the Well-Being of One of His Organs

7-7 أخبرنا الخليل بن أحمد قال: أخبرنا ابن منيع قال: حدثنا مصعب قال: حدثني مالك، عن أبي عبدالرحمن، عن حفص بن عاصم، عن أبي سعيد الخدري، أو عن أبي هريرة قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله سبعة يظلهم الله عز وجل في ظله يوم لا ظل إلا ظله إمام عادل، وشاب نشأ في عبادة الله عز وجل، ورجل قلبه متعلق بالمسجد إذا خرج منه حتى يعود إليه، ورجلان كانا في طاعة الله عز وجل فاجتمعا على ذلك وتفرقا، ورجل ذكر الله عز وجل خاليا ففاضت عيناه من خشية الله عز وجل ورجل دعته امرأة ذات حسب وجمال، فقال: إني أخاف الله عز وجل، ورجل تصدق بصدقة فأخفاها حتى لا تعلم شماله ما يتصدق بيمينه

7-7 Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad narrated that Ibn Muni’a quoted Mus’ab, on the authority of Malik, on the authority of Aba Abdul Rahman, on the authority of Hafs ibn Asem, on the authority of Abi Sa’id al-Khidry, or Abi Hurayrih that God’s Prophet (MGB) said, “God - the Honorable the Exalted - will put His Shade over seven people on the day in which there is no shade except for His Shade: just leaders; young people who have grown up in the worship of the Honorable the Exalted God; men whose heart is with the mosque when they leave it until they return to it; two men who gather together in the mosque in order to obey the Honorable the Exalted God and stay there until they part; men who remember the Honorable the Exalted God when they are alone and cry due to the fear of the Honorable the Exalted God; men invited by a beautiful woman with a good reputation, but do not accept her invitation and say that they fear the Honorable the Exalted God; and men who give charity in private in such a way that no one finds out.”

7-8 حدثنا المظفر بن جعفر [بن المظفر] العلوي العمري السمرقندي رضي الله عنه قال: حدثنا جعفر بن محمد بن مسعود العياشي، عن أبيه، عن الحسين بن إشكيب، عن محمد بن علي الكوفي، عن أبي جميلة الاسدي، عن أبي بكر الخضرمي، عن سلمة بن كهيل رفعه، عن ابن عباس قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله:سبعة في ظل عرش الله عز وجل يوم لا ظل إلا ظله: إمام عادل، وشاب نشأ في عبادة الله عز وجل، ورجل تصدق بيمينه فأخفاه عن شماله، ورجل ذكر الله عز وجل خاليا ففاضت عيناه من خشية الله عز وجل،و رجل لقى أخاه المؤمن فقال: إني لاحبك في الله عز وجل، ورجل خرج من المسجد وفي نيته أن يرجع إليه،و رجل دعته امرأة ذات جمال إلى نفسها، فقال: إني أخاف الله رب العالمين

7-8 Al-Muzaf’far ibn Ja’far (Ibn al-Muzaf’far) al-Alavi al-Umari al-Samarqandi - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Ja’far ibn Muhammad ibn Masood al-Ayashi quoted his father, on the authority of Al-Hussein ibn Ishkeeb, on the authority of Muhammad ibn Ali al-Kufy, on the authority of Abi Jamileh Al-Asady, on the authority of Abu Bakr al-Khizermi, on the authority of Salma ibn Kohayl who linked it up to Ibn Abbas that God’s Prophet (MGB) said, “Seven people will be in the Shade of the Honorable the Exalted God’s Throne on the day in which there is no shade except for His Shade: just leaders; young people who have grown up in the worship of God; men who give charity in private such that even their left hands do not realize what they gave with their right hands (stressing the fact that they give charity such that no one else sees it); men who remember the Honorable the Exalted God when they are alone and cry due to the fear of the Honorable the Exalted God; men who upon seeing their believing brethren say, ‘I like you for the sake of the Honorable the Exalted God’; men who intend to return to the mosque whenever they leave it; men invited by a beautiful woman, but do not accept her invitation and say that they fear the Lord of the Two Worlds.”

Al-Khiṣāl

Book 8, Chapter 6