Fwd’ing
Assalaamualaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu
inshaAllah you are safe and in the best of health and imaan
Number 2:
Narrated Mu’adh ibn Jabal: I said to Allah’s Messenger (salla llahu
alayhi wa sallam): Inform me about an act which would entitle me to
get into Paradise, and remove me away from Hell-Fire.
He (the Prophet) said: You have asked me about a matter (which
ostensibly appears to be) difficult but it is easy to those for whom
Allah, the Exalted, has made it easy. Worship Allah and do not
associate anything with him, establish prayer, pay the Zakat, observe
the fast of Ramadan and perform Hajj to the (sacred) House (Ka’bah).
He again said: Should I not direct you to the gateways of good?
Listen to me: The fasting is a shield against evil, the charity
extinguishes (the fire of sin) just as water extinguishes fire, the
prayer of a person during the middle of the night. Then he
recited: ‘Who forsake their beds…(up to)…they used to do.’ Then
he said: Should I not direct you to the highest level of this matter,
to the pillar on which (it rests) and its top?
I said: Allah’s Messenger yes, (do tell me). He said: The uppermost
level of the matter is al-Islam. Its pillar is the prayer and its top
is Jihad. He then said: Should I not inform you of the sheet anchor
of all this? I said: Allah’s Apostle (of course do it). He took hold
of his tongue and said: Exercise restraint on it. I said: Apostle of
Allah, would we be held responsible for what we say with it?
Thereupon he said: Mu’adh, may your mother be bereaved. Will anything
else besides (irresponsible) talk cause the people to be thrown into
the Hell-Fire upon their faces or on their nostrils?
(Transmitted by Ahmad, Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah.)
“I put my trust in Allah, my Lord and your Lord! There is not a moving creature, but He has a grasp of its forelock. Verily, my Lord is on the straight path. (The truth)”
(11:55-56)