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If you are unable to do it, advise the people to give up evils, because it is a charity. It will be considered for you as an act of charity. The Prophet said : The best Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands other Muslim, remains safe. The Prophet once was asked : Do you know who is a Muslim ? The companions replied. God and His Apostle know best. He said : A Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands other Muslim are safe and a believer is he in whose hand the lives and properties of the believers remain safe. The companions asked : Who is a refuges ?
He said : One who gives up sin. A man asked : What is Islam ? he said : Your sacrifice of heart for the sake of God and the Muslim remaining safe from your tongue and hands. The Prophet said : I saw a man loitering freely in Paradise for rewards of cutting tree which was obstructing the path of the Muslims.

Hazrat Abu Hurairah asked the Prophet one day : O Messenger of God, give me such advice as will do benefit to me.
He said : Remove the injurious things from the path of the Muslims. The Prophet said : If a man removes an injurious thing from the path of the Muslims, God writes for him a virtue.
Paradise is sure for one for whom God writes a virtue. The Prophet said ; It is no lawful for a Muslim to cast such a look on another Muslim which gives him trouble in mind. He said : It is not lawful for a Muslim to threaten another Muslim with fear. He said : God does not like that the believers should be given trouble.

(4) Be modest to every Muslim Don't treat harshly with him, don't take pride near him as God does not love the proud and the self-conceited. The Prophet said : God revealed to me : Be modest to one another and don't be proud to one. another. If anybody shows pride to you, keep patience. God ordered the Prophet :
Take to pardon and enjoin good and keep away from the illiterate. The Prophet was modest to every Muslim, he was not harsh to them and did not dislike to do the, necessary works of the poor and the widwoss.

(5) Don't hear back-biting and don't take it to others. The Prophet said : The back-biter will not enter paradise.

(6) Give up disputes and quarrels. When you get angry with another, don't give up his association for more than three days.
The Prophet said : It is not lawful for a Muslim to remain aloof

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from his brother for more than three days, nor should he turn away his face from another if both of them meet. The better of the two is one who greets first with salutation . The Prophet said: If a man pardons the faults of a Muslim, God will forgive his faults on the resurrection day . Hazrat Ayesha said : The Prophet never took revenge for personal wrongs. The Prophet said: Wealth does not reduce by charity. God does not increase but honour in case of pardon . God raises a man who becomes modest for the sake of God.