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God says: " Woe to those who take full measure when they take from men and who reduce it when they give it to others ?
Hope to do justice to others as you expect that others should do justice to you. The Prophet said : If man conceals the faults of his brother in this world. God will conceal his faults in the next.
There is in another narration. He gives life as it were to a buried man. The Prophet said : The discussions of an assembly are trust except those of three assemblies-r-O) the assembly where unlawful murders are committed, -.(2) the. assembly where unlawful fornications are made lawful,,- (3) a,nd the assembly where wealth is made lawful ^bxce_p>rby lawful means. The Prophet said : The consultations of two friend9 afefike trust. It is not lawful to disclose to another what one does not like. One wise ■ man was asked. How can you keep matters secret ? He said : I am like a grave for these mattes. The heart of a fool is in his tongue and the tongue of a wise man is in his heart. In other words, the fool cannot keep secret what is in his mind and discloses it in such a place which he does not know.

Hazrat Abbas said to his Abdullah: I see that Hazrat Omar has given you superiority over the elderly companions Remember my five instructions-(l) Don't disclose ' 's (Omar's)
secrets ; (2) don't vilify in his (Omar) presence ; (j> don't talk courage to tell falsehood before him ; (4) don't disobey his orders ; (5) and let him not see you committing any act of treachery. The sage Shubi said : Each sentence of these five instructions is better , than one thousand sentences. Hazrat Ibn Abbas said : Don't argue with a fool lest he give you trouble. Don' t argue with a wise man, lest he envies you. The Prophet said . If a man gives up dispute over a useless matter, a house will be built for him in a corner of Paradise. If a man gives up dispute of a matter to which he has got right, a house will be built up for him in a high place of Paradise.

The Prophet said: Don't envy one another, don't cut off- connections from one another and make brotherhood among the

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servants of God-One Muslim is brother to another Muslim. He does not oppress him, he does not deprive him and he does not dishonour him. Ibrt Omamah Baheli said : The Prophet once came to us. We were then arguing withone another. He got enraged and said : Give up arguing as there is little good in it.Give up dispute as it has got little benefit and it grows enmity between two friends. A certain wise man said : If a man dispute with his friends,, his manliness goes away and his honour also goes away.
The Prophet said : Don't dispute with your brother, don't ridicule him, don't break promise with him. He said : You give in charity ample wealth to the people but it does not comes out in a cheerful mood and in good manners.