Good Conduct All praise is due to Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. May peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family and companions. Brothers in faith! Fear Allah, obey Him and beware of His punishment. Fellow Muslims! One of the goals of Islam is the establishment and fulfilment of Allah’s rights on man, and the rights of man on his fellow human beings. Allah says, “Worship Allah and join not with Him in worship, and do good to parents, kinsfolk, orphans, the poor, the neighbour who is near of kin, the neighbour who is a stranger, the companion by your side, the wayfarer (you meet), and those (slaves) whom your right hand possesses. Verily, Allah does not like such as are proud and boastful.” (An-Nisaa’ 4: 36) Whatever people may do beside the above goal – like living our day to day lives on the earth, upholding the law and abstaining from injustice, etc. are only secondary obligations and a means to achieve the first and primary goal. Good conduct is the foundation for the fulfilment of one’s obligations to Allah and to other human beings. Good conduct increases one in rank and erases one’s misdeeds. The Prophet also said, “Nothing is weightier on the scale of a believing slave (of Allah) on the Day of Resurrection than good conduct and indeed, Allah dislikes the rude and disrespectful.” (At-Tirmidhee) Good conduct includes all commendable characteristics and all other things which, according to Islamic Law and sound reason, are good. Some scholars say: “Good conduct is to spread all that is good and abstain from all that is evil.” Good conduct means performing all that Allah enjoins and abstaining from all that He forbids. One should try to be pious, sincere, patient, forbearing, modest, deliberate, decent, dutiful to one’s parents, kind to the kith and kin, passionate, courageous, generous, truthful, and gentle, enjoin good, forbid evil, have good neighbourliness, humbleness and tolerance; and abstain from trickery, betrayal, immodesty, disgraceful behaviour, consuming unlawful food and drink, lying, slandering, miserliness, cowardliness, showing-off and self-glorification. Good conduct benefits a believer in this life and the next, and increases him in rank before his Lord. Both good and bad people benefit from their good conduct. As for the kaafir, his good conduct only benefits him in this world and Allah rewards him for it here and on the Last Day he will have no share.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 04:34:02 +0000
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