Chapter 5 - On Oppression and the Forbidden

Mutraf said: “It is better for me to fall asleep at night and wake up sorry in the morning, than to stay up all night and start my day with conceit in the morning. Conceit means being pleased with perfection of man's characteristics, deeds or self; and relying on them and forgetting the real One who gives the blessings.”

“Avoid oppressing (others) since it will spiritually ruin your heart.”

God's Prophet (a.s) said: “Whoever knowingly accompanies and helps an oppressor has abandoned Islam.”

God's Prophet (a.s) said: “Helping a believer to avoid a divinely forbidden act is better than seventy accepted pilgrimages for God.”

God's Prophet (a.s) said: “Whenever a bite of illegitimate food enters a believer’s stomach, all the angels in the heavens and the Earth will curse him… etc.”

God's Prophet (a.s) said: “When a believer receives some religious advice from God, it is in fact like a divine blessing that he has received. If he applies it, he has been grateful for it. Otherwise, that advice is considered to be an ultimatum from God, and he might later be subject to God's Wrath.”

God's Prophet (a.s) said: “It is better to act justly for one hour than to worship for seventy years, fast in the daytime and stay up and worship during the night-time. For God, one hour of oppressive orders is worse than sixty years of committing great sins.”