Islamic

It is told that a righteous man worked in the cloth trade, and was accustomed every year to buying garments and selling them to whoever wanted, and unlike others, he always instructed his workers to tell customers about defects in the fabrics if they found them before buying them. One day a Jewish man came to his shop and bought a defective garment, and the merchant was not present at that time but one of his workers, and he did not care to inform the Jew about the defect because he was not a Muslim. When the owner of the shop arrived and saw that the garment was not present, he asked him about it, so the worker told him that he had sold it to the Jew for three thousand dirhams without informing him of its defect. ...

Islam is a religion that hates lying because it leads to corruption and then to fire, and God loves truthfulness. God the Exalted hates the liar in this world with a severe and painful punishment. Therefore, God has revealed many noble verses that detest lying and urge truthfulness, as His statement, the Exalted: “Indeed, God does not guide the treacherous deceiver” (Surah Al-Mu’min, verse 28). Here is a collection of stories between truth and lying, and what happens to those who lie. For God, the Exalted, is just in His judgment, guiding the truthful and hating the deceivers, and seeing their deeds. ...

One summer night, the Sultan went out to stroll through the city after feeling some sudden distress. He shouted at one of his guards to bring his chief to go out on a tour with him. This Sultan was accustomed to strolling through the city from time to time in disguise. As soon as his guard chief met him, the Sultan began, saying, “Come, let’s go out for a walk; I feel distressed.” His guard chief agreed and went out with him, strolling among the city streets. ...

Peace, love, and goodness—all values and dealings advocated by our noble Messenger, who instructed us to practice them with everyone around us. Our friend Amar understood this matter, and this was his way of implementing it. Amar returned from school one day and sat talking to his father about what he had learned from his workshop. He said to his father: Do you know, father, that the Companions of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, used to go to the market without having any need in it? His father replied: And how is that, Amar? ...

Long ago in one of the poor villages, there lived an old poor man. Despite his poverty, the king envied him because he owned a beautiful white horse unlike any other. The king tried repeatedly to buy it but to no avail. Though the king offered him an excellent price, the old man refused, saying: “This is not just an ordinary horse to me; it is my friend, so how can I sell my friend? Forgive me, my lord, for this is impossible.” ...

Charity has great merit, for God Almighty has commanded us with it when desiring to prevent harm, heal the sick, and open the paths for all good. It extinguishes the Lord’s anger. The Exalted Lord says in His Holy Book: If a dead person wants to return to life again and wants to do something that brings him closer to God, he will give charity. Do you know the greatness of this good habit? ...

One day, the Crusaders gathered and decided to attack Jerusalem in Palestine. They seized it and occupied it. The Crusaders engaged in looting and theft in the land. There was an elderly woman living in an old house with her only son, Ahmed. His mother said to him one day: “Oh Ahmed, the Crusader soldiers have seized everything your father left for us and took it by force. We have only one cow left. Be very careful that the Crusaders do not see it so that they do not take it. Take care of it, oh Ahmed, so that we may drink its milk, for we have nothing left but it.” Ahmed said: “At your command, oh mother. I will take care of it and preserve it, and I will take it now to the field to eat and drink.” ...

This is a fictional story, but it carries within it a lesson and moral about the reward of good upbringing of children and planting fear of God inside them from a young age, as well as satisfaction with destiny and trust in God. It is told that a poor fisherman was a father to three daughters. Every day he would go to the sea to fish and take one of his daughters with him to help him in fishing. Sometimes he would come with many fish sufficient for him and his family, and would sell from them. Other times, he would bring the nets completely empty. ...

One day there were three friends, Ahmed, Muhammad, and Sulaiman, and these friends had pledged to stand by each other’s side during any crisis that any of them went through, and these friends lived in one village, and this village was famous for the love of its inhabitants for each other, and the absence of hatred and enmity between them. One day, Ahmed’s wife came to him and said to him: my beloved husband, you know that the Eid has approached, and we do not have new clothes for our children, so we want money to buy our children’s clothes. Her husband Ahmed replied to her, his heart filled with sadness and regret: I do not have money to buy new clothes for our children, but wait I will go to my friend Sulaiman to borrow some money from him. ...

There was a rich man. When he married, he begot from his wife two sons. He continued to raise them, oversee their upbringing, and spend upon them until they grew up and became men capable of bearing responsibility. Then after a period of time, the man fell severely ill. He continued to suffer from this illness until he died from the severity of the effects of that disease. He left his two sons a tremendous fortune. ...