When a man loves his brother, he should tell him that he loves him Do you know what backbiting is?" They said: "Allah and His Messenger know best." He said: "It is to say of your brother what he dislikes Who is that who swears that I will not forgive so-and-so? Indeed, I have forgiven him and rendered worthless your deeds One may utter a word thoughtlessly and, as a result of this, he will fall down into Hellfire for a distance greater than the distance between the east and the west I said: O Messenger of Allah, what is salvation? He said: "Control your tongue, abide in your house, and weep over your sin There is nothing heavier on the believer's scale on the Day of Judgment than good morals. Indeed, Allah detests the one who is indecent and foulmouthed It is one of the major sins when a man abuses his parents. It was asked: Would a man ever abuse his parents? He replied: Yes. He abuses the father of another man, who in return abuses his father, and he abuses his mother, and so the latter abuses the former’s mother Woe to him who speaks and tells lies so as to make people laugh thereby. Woe to him! Woe to him! The most despicable name in the sight of Allah is that of a man named the King of kings. There is no king but Allah Whoever swears by Al-Lāt and Al-‘Uzza should say: 'There is no god but Allah'. And whoever says to his companion 'Come and gamble with me' should give charity When a person curses something, the curse ascends to heaven and the gates of heaven are closed against it. Then it descends to earth and its gates are closed against it. Then it turns right and left and when it finds no exit it returns to what was cursed if it deserves to be cursed; otherwise it rebounds to the one who uttered it Do not call a hypocrite a master, for if he is a master, you will have angered your Almighty Lord A Muslim is the one from whose tongue and hand Muslims are safe, and a Muhājir (emigrant) is the one who abandons what Allah has forbidden “There are four (traits); whoever has them is a sheer hypocrite, and whoever has one trait of them has one of the traits of hypocrisy until he gives it up: whenever he speaks, he tells a lie; whenever he makes a covenant, he proves treacherous; whenever he makes a promise, he breaks it; and whenever he is in a dispute, he behaves in a shameless immoral manner A believer is not a slanderer, nor a curser, nor a person who speaks obscenely, nor a person who uses foul language When the son of Adam gets up in the morning, all of his body organs humble themselves before the tongue, and say: Fear Allah concerning us! For indeed, we are only as you are (our condition depends upon yours); if you are upright, we shall be upright, and if you are crooked, we shall be crooked A person may utter a word pleasing to Allah, the Almighty, without considering it of any significance, and because of it Allah raises his ranks; and a person may utter a word displeasing to Allah, the Almighty, without considering it of any significance, and because of it he sinks down into Hellfire None of you should wish for death. Either he is a doer of good, so he may do more good; or he is an evildoer, so he may give up evil deeds The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) heard a man praising another and exaggerating in his praise, whereupon he said: You have ruined - or cut - the man's back. Woe unto you! You have cut the neck of your companion It does not befit the truthful one to frequently curse others Do not curse one another, invoking the curse of Allah or His wrath or the fire of Hell Unload it and set it free, for it is cursed Let the she-camel upon which curse has been invoked not accompany us If a man says: People are ruined, he himself will be the most ruined among them all When two people insult each other, the one who started will be the sinner until the oppressed exceeds the limits Do not curse the fever, for it removes the sins of the children of Adam the same way the bellows remove the impurities of iron Do not curse the rooster, for indeed it awakens (people) for prayer An oath is a means for selling a commodity and a means for destroying the profit