Wisdom of The Holy Prophet — Page 60
60 39. Do not use a stone which has been unlawfully obtained in a building you erect, for it will be the cause of its ruin. 40. If you will give me a guarantee on six points I shall guarantee Paradise for you : when you speak, tell the truth; when you promise, perform; when you are entrusted with something, discharge your trust; safeguard your chastity; cast down your eyes; and restrain your hands from doing harm to another. 41. The enemy of cleverness is overdoing; the enemy of bravery is tyranny; the enemy of benevolence is to remind the recipient of it; the enemy of beauty is vanity; the enemy of worship is lack of persistence; the enemy of speech is falsehood; the enemy of learning is forgetfulness; the enemy of wisdom is folly; the enemy of good descent is boasting; and the enemy of generosity is extravagance. 42. Eat and drink of the good things lawful for you. spend in charity and clothe yourselves without extravagance and vanity. 43. The worst of creatures is the one : (a) who is full of pride and arrogance and forgets the Great, the High: (b) who oppresses and tyrannizes and forgets the Supreme, the Exalted; (cl who is occupied with sport and play and for gets the grave and its trials; (d) who is disobedient and rebellious and forgets his beginning and his end; (e) who makes his religion a means of winning worldly goods; (f) who seeks faith through doubt; (g) who is driven by greed; (h) who is led astray by lust; and (i) who is humiliated by desire.