Saturday: Holy Prophet of Islam (saw) - Justice, oppression, truthfulness, breaking promises

Justice is good but it's better with rulers, generosity is good but it's better with the rich, abstinence is good but it's better with the learned, paience is good but it's better with the youth, and chastity is good but it's better with women.

Oppresseion is [the source of] darkness in the Day of judgement.

Oppression ruins [the value of] bravery; self pride ruins familial dignity; conferring favors spoils [the worth of] generosity; selfishness ruins [the value of] beauty; telling lie breaks [the validity of] speech; forgetfulness ruins knowledge; ignorance ruins fortitude; extravagence ruins generosity, and carnal desires ruin [one's] faith.

Truth of the tounge leads to truth of the heart and that, in turn, leads to truth of one's faith.

Truthfulness is a heavenly act.  When a man tells the truth, he is led to do good which will (in turn) lead him to safety, and this will lead him to Paradise.  Telling lies (on the contrary) is a hellish act.  When a man tells lie, he is led to wrongdoing, which will [in turn] lead him to disbelief, and this will direct him to Hell.

Truthfulness is peace; lying is anxiety.

Five things give rise to five other things: those who break their promise will be subjected to the rule of their enemies.  Those who judge contrary to God's Law, will suffer poverty.  Those who commit obsene acts, will face recurrent unexpected deaths.  Those who make use of short weights in selling, will be afflicted with famine.  Those who do not give poor rate, will suffer years of drought.

A true believer is bereft of two attributes: telling lie and stinginess.

A [true] believer should have the following eight characteristics: soberness at hard times, patience in calamities, greatfulness in reliefs, contentment for whatever the Great and Glorified God has given, avoidance from oppressing enemies and hurting friends, and toleration of physical sufferings to make people feel safe from him.

A believer has all kinds of natures save treachery and telling lie.

A believer is a servant of God who doesn't oppress his enemies nor does he commit sins for the sake of his friends, who keeps trusts inteact and refrains from jealousy, sarcasm and cursing others, who tells the truth though not called to bear witness and calls not people with bad names, who observes humility in prayers, hases in paying his due alms, keeps patient in clamities and thanks (God) in affluence, who is content with what he has and claims not what he doesn't, who doesn't stop doing good deeds due to misery, who keeps company with people to learn and talks to them something to earn, and who forebears oppression and tyranny, awaiting the Merciful God to give him victory.

A promise is a debt, Woe is him who breaks his promise! Woe is him who breaks his promise! Woe is him who breaks his promise!

All sorts of lying are sins, save the one benefitting people.

All forms of lying are recorded in man's book of deeds, save the following, telling lie in war for war is deceit, telling women a lie to please them, and telling two persons a lie to make them come to terms.