An Islamic Treasury of Virtues
2. What is Faith?
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of the lender?” He then sent a man to Khaulah
bint Qays, to ask her to lend him some dates if
she had any. “We shall repay you when we
receive some,” he told her. Khaulah bint Qays
then sent some dates to the Prophet, who not
only handed them over to the Arab, but also gave
him a meal. “You have been faithful and true,”
said the Arab to the Prophet. “May God be
faithful and true to you.” “The best people are
those who carefully pay others their rightful
due,” said the Prophet. “God does not bless a
community in which the weak cannot take from
the strong what is rightfully theirs without fear
or repraisal.”
(IBN MAJAH,
SUNAN)
RECEIVING PRAISE, NOT WITH CONCEIT,
BUT WITH HUMILITY
According to Naafi someone launching into
extravagant eulogies to Abdullah ibn Umar,
addressed him as “most noble of men, son of the
most noble, “Neither am I the most noble of men,
nor am I the son of the most noble,” replied Ibn
Umar. “I am just one of God’s servants; in Him do I
