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256 much talk without. GARDENS OF THE RIGHTEOUS remembrance of Allah, for much talk without remembrance of Allah hardens the heart and the person farthest from Allah will be the one who has a hard heart (Tirmidhi). 1524. Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: He whom Allah shields against the evil of that which is between his jaws and the evil of that which is between his legs will enter Paradise (Tirmidhi). 1525. Uqbah ibn 'Amir relates: I asked the Holy Prophet: Messenger of. Allah, how can salvation be achieved? He answered: Control your tongue, take to your house and weep over your sins (Tirmidhi). 1526. Abu Sa'id Khudri relates that the Holy Prophet said: When a man gets up in the morning all his limbs entreat his tongue saying: Be regardful of Allah on our behalf for we but follow you; if you go straight we shall go straight and if you are awry we shall be awry (Tirmidhi). 1527. Mu'az relates: I asked the Holy Prophet: Messenger of Allah, tell me of something which should cause me to be admitted to Paradise and shall keep me away from the Fire. He answered: You have asked about a matter of great import but it is easy for one for whom Allah makes it easy. Worship. Allah and associate not anything with Him, observe Prayer, pay the Zakat. observe the Fast of Ramadhan and perform the Pilgrimage if you can afford the journey. Then he added: Shall I inform you of the gates of goodness? The fast is a shield, charity puts out sins as water puts out fire and also the Prayer in the middle of the night. Then he recited: They withdraw themselves from their beds in the latter part of the night for Prayers and they call on their Lord in fear and hope and spend out of that which We have bestowed on them. No one knows what bliss is kept hidden from them, as a reward for what they used to do (32. 17-18). . Then he added: Shall I tell you of the root of the matter and of its contours and of its top? I said: Certainly, Messenger of Allah. He said: The root of the matter is Islam, its contours are Prayers and its top is striving in the cause of. Allah. Then he asked: Shall I tell you of that which is at the bottom of all this?. I said: Certainly, Messenger of Allah. Upon this he took hold of his tongue and said: Keep this under control. I inquired: Messenger of Allah, shall we be called to account in respect of that which we say? He answered: May your mother lose you, will people not be thrown face down into hell only on account of the harvest of the tongue (Tirmidhi)? 1528. Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: Do you know what backbiting is? He was answered: Allah and His Messenger know best. He said: Your saying of your brother that which he would dislike. Someone said:. But if my brother should be as I say? The Holy Prophet said: If he should be as you say then you have been guilty of backbiting and if he should not be as you say you are guilty of a calumny (Muslim). 1529. This hadith is comprehended in No. 215. 1530. Ayesha relates: I said to the Holy Prophet: It is enough for you concerning Safayyah that she is thus and thus (some narrators have said that