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Hazrat Anas reported that the Prophet did not give up good advice and enjoined us to stick to it. He used to Warn us from backbiting and prohibited it. The following verse is sufficient to prove it : God loves justice and doing good to others. Hazrat Muaz said : The Prophet advised me thus : O Muaz, I advise you :
fear God, speak the truth fulfill promise, pay up trust, give up breach of trust, save your neighbour , show kindness to orphans, be modest intalk, spread peace, do good deeds, hope less, stick, to fifth earn knowledge about the Quran, love the next world, fear rendering of accounts and lower your aim. O Muaz, I forbid you : Don't tell a truthful man lair, don't follow any sin , don't disobey any judge, don't be a leader, don't disobey a just judge, and don't create disorder in land. I give you instruction : Fear God while passing by each stone, tree, and heaps of earth. Make repentacne anew after committing any sin. Repent secretly for secret sin and openly for open sin.

(2) PROPHET'S CHARACTER AND CONDUCT

The Holy Prophet was the most patient among men, the bravest, the best judge, and one who pardoned most. His hand did not touch any strange woman. He was the greatest charitable man. He did not pass a single night hoarding any dirham or dinar. Whenever any excess money came to him and if he did not

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then get anyone to accept it as charity, he did not return home till , he gave it to the poor and the needy. He did not store up for more than a year the provision of his family members which God was . pleased to give him. He used to take one fifth of what easily came to him out of dates and wheat. What remained in excess, he used to give in charity. He used to give away in charity to him who begged of him of anything, even out of his stored up provision .