A one line summary of Imam Nawawi’s famous hadith collection, the Arabeen Nawawi.
- The reward of actions are by intentions
- We believe in Allah, his angels, books, messengers, resurrection and the divine decree
- There are five pillars shahadah, salah, zakah, Ramadhan, hajj
- Ihsan is excellence, and must be done in everything
- Be wary the hour is approaching, what have you prepared?
- Four aspects are determined before birth—sustenance (rizq), lifespan, actions, and ultimate fate (happiness or misery in the Hereafter).
- What Allah decrees is decreed, you can’t change it, don’t dwell on it
- Final deeds hold significant weight in determining one’s ultimate fate.
- Don’t change the deen, don’t add new things
- Guard against innovations
- Follow Halal, avoid haram and avoid the doubtful
- If the heart is sound, the whole body is sound
- Show you sincerity in your deen to Allah by obeying his commands, to the Prophet by following his sunnah, to the Quran by reading it, and following it, the leader by obeying him, to the people by giving them good advice
- Salah and Zakat are very important, fight the one who abandons it
- Follow what is given to you, don’t ask too many questions
- Allah only accepts pure and halal from people,
- Consume from lawful provisions
- Dua are not accepted from those who divulge in haraam
- Leave doubtful things
- Leave that which doesn’t concern you
- Love for your brother what you love for yourself
- The life of a Muslim is sacred, unless there is a valid reason to take it.
- Speak well or remain silent
- Honour and be generous to the neighbour
- Honour and be generous to the guest
- Do not execute on your anger
- Do things in an excellent manner
- Have taqwa of Allah where ever you are
- Follow a wrong with a right
- Treat people in a good manner
- Take account of your day, the good and the bad, and seek forgiveness
- Be mindful of Allah, and he will be mindful of you
- Ask Allah, he will give
- Trust that what is destined will come to pass, and what isn’t will never reach you.
- Remember Allah in times of ease to be remembered during adversity.
- Victory comes with patience, relief with affliction, and hardship with ease.
- Have istiqamah upon islam
- Have shame and modesty
- Perform at least your obligations for entry into Jannah
- Be a person of purity in appearance, environment, conduct, imaan, etc.
- Glorify Allah much
- Salah is a guidance for us
- Giving in charity proves we are of the Muslims
- Being patient leads to illumination
- The Quran will be evidence for you or against you
- Every person is responsible for his own soul on a daily basis
- Don’t oppress each other, nor the deen
- Seek guidance from Allah
- Allah provides food, drink and clothing so be mindful and grateful
- Seek forgiveness from Allah
- Allah’s provision do not end
- Praise Allah when things go well
- Acts of remembrance (tasbeeh, tahmeed, takbeer, tahleel) are forms of charity.
- Encouraging good and forbidding evil are also acts of charity.
- Fulfilling lawful desires, even personal ones, can bring reward if done with the right intention.
- Opportunities for earning reward are accessible to everyone
- Every joint wakes up in debt, it must give its charity
- Make use of your ability and gifts from Allah
- Settling disputes fairly is a form of charity.
- Assisting someone is charity.
- Speaking kindly is charity.
- Walking to mosque for prayer is charity.
- Clearing obstacles from the path is charity.
- Righteousness lies in having upright and ethical character.
- Wrongdoing is that which wavers the soul and causes uneasiness
- Have taqwa of Allah
- Listen and obey leader when they are on the deen
- Cling firmly to the teachings of the Prophet and the rightly guided caliphs.
- Cling on to the right way
- Do not neglect religious obligations
- Keep to limits and don’t overstep the mark
- Fasting is a shield; charity wipes away sin as water extinguishes fire; and the praying of a man in the depths of the night.”
- Great reward for the one who fulfils obligations, gives charity and prays an night
- Keep hold of your tongue
- Keep to all religious obligations
- And do not overstep limits
- Don’t make things hard for yourself
- Renounce the worldly matters and possessions
- Don’t harm others, and don’t be harmed
- The Sharia prevent people from unjustly claiming the wealth and lives of others
- Change evil with your hand, then tongue, then feel in the heart
- Do not envy one another
- Do not inflate prices for one another
- Do not hate one another
- Do not turn away from one another
- Do not undercut one another in trade
- Be slaves of Allah and brothers amongst yourselves.
- Don’t oppress your brother
- Don’t fail your brothers
- Don’t lie to your brother
- Don’t hold your brother in contempt
- Taqwa is in the heart
- Protect your Muslim brother’s blood, property, and honour
- Remove a worldly grief from a believer, Allah will remove from him one of the griefs of the Day of Resurrection.
- Alleviate the need of a needy person, Allah will alleviate his needs in this world and the Hereafter.
- Shields the misdeeds of a Muslim, Allah will shield him in this world and the Hereafter.
- Aid you brother, Allah will aid you
- Whoever follows a path to seek knowledge, Allah will make easy for him a path to Paradise.
- No people gather together in one of the Houses of Allah, reciting the Book of Allah and studying it among themselves, except that tranquillity descends upon them, and mercy envelops them, and the angels surround them, and Allah mentions them amongst those who are with Him.
- Your lineage will not help you if you are short of good deeds
- Whosoever intended to perform a good deed, but did not do it, then Allah writes it down with Himself as a complete good deed.
- If he intended to perform it and then did perform it, then Allah writes it down with Himself as from ten good deeds up to seven hundred times, up to many times multiplied.
- If he intended to perform an evil deed, but did not do it, then Allah writes it down with Himself as a complete good deed.
- If he intended the evil deed and then performed it, then Allah writes it down as one evil deed.
- Allah declares war upon the one who shows enmity toa friend of his
- When a servant of Allah draws nears to him beyond the obligations, Allah loves him. And when He loves him, He is his hearing with which he hears, His sight with which he sees, and His hand with which he strikes, and His foot with which he walks. Were he to ask of something, Allah will surely give to him and were he to seek refuge, Allah would surely grant it.
- Allah is lenient with this ummah, their mistakes, their forgetfulness, and that which they have been forced to do under duress.
- Be in this world as though you were a stranger or a wayfarer.
- In the evening do not expect to live until the morning, and in the morning do not expect to live until the evening.
- Take advantage of your health before times of sickness, and take advantage or your life before your death.
- The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, “None of is truly believe until our desires are not beyond the Sunnah
- Allah the Almighty has said: ‘O Son of Adam, as long as you invoke Me and ask of Me, I shall forgive you for what you have done, and I shall not mind. O Son of Adam, were your sins to reach the clouds of the sky and you then asked forgiveness from Me, I would forgive you. O Son of Adam, were you to come to Me with sins nearly as great as the Earth, and were you then to face Me, ascribing no partner to Me, I would bring you forgiveness nearly as great as it [too].’