Gardens of the Righteous — Page 133
652. . RIYADH AS-SALIHIN 77. . On Indignation against Violation of Injunctions. Allah, the Exalted, has said. 230. Whoso honours that which is declared sacred by. Allah may be sure that it counts for good with his Lord (22. 31). 231. If you help the cause of Allah, He will help you and make your steps firm (47. 8). 133. Uqbah ibn Amr relates that a man came to the Holy Prophet and said: I am delayed by the morning Prayer service because of So and So who leads it and prolongs it. I have never seen the Holy Prophet so provoked into admonition as he was then. He said: Some of you make people dislike the faith. Whoever leads the Prayer should keep it brief for among the congregation are all types, old, young and those who have to attend to affairs (Bokhari and Muslim). 653. Ayesha relates that the Holy Prophet on returning from a journey. saw a light curtain which I had slung along a platform before my chamber and which bore some pictures. His face changed colour and he wiped out the pictures and said: Ayesha, on the Day of Judgment those who make likenesses of Allah's creatures will be subject to the severest torment (Bokhari and. Muslim). 654. Ayesha relates that the Quraish were worried about the case of a. Makhzumi woman who had committed theft and wondered who should intercede on her behalf with the Holy Prophet. Some said: Who can venture to do so except Usamah ibn Zaid who is much loved by the Holy Prophet? So. Usamah spoke to him and the Holy Prophet said to him: Do you seek to intercede in the matter of the limits prescribed by Allah? Then he stood up and made an address in which he said: Those who were before you were ruined because they would let off a high-placed one if he committed theft and would exact the prescribed penalty from a poor one who stole. I call Allah to witness that were Fatimah, daughter of Muhammed, to steal, I would cut off her hand (Bokhari and Muslim). 655. Anas relates that the Holy Prophet noticed spittal in the mosque in the direction of the qibla. He changed colour, stood up and scraped it away with his own hand, and said: When you stand in Prayer you are in communion with your Lord, and He is between you and the qibla. Let no one, therefore, cast out his spittal in that direction, but only to his left or under his foot. Then he took up a corner of his cloak, spat into it and folded it up and said: Or, he should do like this (Bokhari and Muslim).