An Islamic Treasury of Virtues
12. Islamic Character
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you buy it for them? Have you forgotten this
verse: ‘You squandered away your precious
things in your earthly life and took your fill of
pleasure.’” (46:20)
(AL-BAYHAQI,
ALSUNAN AL-KUBRA)
A MUSLIM MUST SUPPRESS HIS DESIRES
Hasan ibn Ali recounts how, once, when Umar
entered his son’s house, he found some meat there
and asked how it came to be there. His son,
Abdullah said that he had felt an urge to eat some
meat that day. “So, everything that you have an
urge for, you eat, do you?” asked Umar. Then
admonishing his son, he said, “A man has to do no
more than partake of everything he desires to be
counted among the extravagant.”
(KANZ AL-UMMAL)
FOR ONE MUSLIM TO SEVER RELATIONS
WITH ANOTHER MUSLIM IS AS BAD AS
KILLING HIM
Abu Kharash Al-Sulami heard this saying of the
Prophet: “To severe relations with one’s Muslim
