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RIYADH AS-SALIHIN your own selves while you read the Book? Will you not then understand (2. 45)? 95. O ye who believe, why do you say that which you do not?. Most odious is it in the sight of Allah that you should say that which you do not (61. 3-4). 96. Shuaib said: I do not desire to act contrary to that with which I admonish you (11. 89). 51 200. Usamah ibn Zaid relates that he heard the Holy Prophet say: A man will be brought on the Day of Judgment and will be thrown into the Fire, whereby his arteries will protrude out of his belly and he will go round and round holding them as does a donkey working a mill. The denizens of the Fire will gather round him and say: What is this? Did you not enjoin good and forbid evil? He will say: That is so. I enjoined good, but did not do it; and I forbade evil but did it (Bokhari and Muslim). 25. . On Discharging Trusts. Allah, the Exalted, has said: 97. Allah commands you to render back the trusts to those entitled to them (4. 59). 98. We offered the Trust to the heavens, and the earth and the mountains, but they refused to undertake it and were afraid of it. But man undertook it. Indeed he is capable of forcing himself to obey, disregardful of consequences (33. 73). 201. Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: A hypocrite has three characteristics: when he talks he lies, when he makes a promise he acts contrary to it, and when something is entrusted to him he embezzles it (Bokhari and Muslim). Another version adds: Even if he joins in Prayer, observes the fast and esteems himself a Muslim. 202. Huzaifah ibn Yaman relates: The Holy Prophet told us two things, one of which I have seen fulfilled, and of the other I am awaiting fulfillment. He told us that integrity was impregnated into the hearts of mankind. Then the. Quran was revealed and they realised it from the Quran and learnt it from my practice. Then he told us about the disappearance of integrity and he said: A man will go to sleep and integrity will be lifted from his heart leaving only a mark on his heart like a boil which a spark of fire might leave on the skin of your foot, which arches out but is empty inside. Then he took up a pebble and started shooting it at his foot and continued: People will go on with their buying and selling, but not one of them will be a man of integrity, so much so that it will be