Tahzeeb-Ul-Islam
Traditions from The Holy Prophet and Ahlulbayt
by Allama Muhammad Baqir Majlisi
Few types of behavier and there benefit’s
Imam Ja’far-e-Sadiq (as) states that often his followers forgot saying ‘Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim’
before they started any work and therefore God puts them to trial,that they may be warned and remeber
The Almigthy and praise Him.
The Almigthy forgives their sin’s on account of there trials He is making them face.
Therefore it is advisable that every person, before starting work, should say;
‘In the name of Allah, The Beneficent,The merciful.’
According to Imam Mohammad Baqir(as).when God had forbidden Hazrat Adam(as) to eat the fruit of Heaven,
he had said ”yes”,but had forgotten to say ‘ Inshallah’.
The result was that he ate the fruit of that tree and was thrown out from Heaven and The Almigthy ordered His Prophet (as).
And say you not (of aught); verily I will do it tomorrow”, Save (say) ” If Allah Will” and remember Thy Lord when Thou forget, that is, one should never say one will do some work tomorrow.
On the contrary, one should say ”Provided God Willing” and leave the work unto the will of God.
If one has forgotten saying ‘InshAllah’, one should say it whenever one remembers it, even if one remembers it after one year.
According to Imam Moosa Ibne Ja’far (as), the doing of nine act’s makes one forgetful;
a) Eating bitter apple
b)Corriander
c)Cheese
d)Food already eaten by a rat
e)Urinating in standing water
f)Reading epitaphs(or graves)
g)Walking between two women
h)Leaving the lice alive
i)Having blood taken out often from the back of the neck
According to Hazrat Ali (as), three things increase memory;
a)Doing miswak(cleaning teeth with gren stick)
b)Keeping fasts
c)Recitating Quran-e-Majid
It is stated from reliable traditions that once Imam (as) was sad and said that he could not decipher why he was sad because he had never sat on the threshold or walked through a flock of sheep, or had put on the pyjama while standing or cleaned his face and hands with the cloth meant for wearing.
This implies that all the above acts cause sadness.
According to Hazrat Ali (as), there are certain things wich lead to poverty and others that lead to wealth.
Things causing poverty and need are sixteen;
a)Having cobwebs in the house
b)Urinating in bathroom
c)Eating in the state of Janabat
d)Cleaning teeth with stick used in sweeping
e)Combing hair while standing
f)To have dirt inthe house inspite of having a broom in the house
g)Taking false oath
h)Adultery
i)Greediness
j)Sleeping between Namaz-e-Maghrib and Isha
k)Sleeping between early morning and sunrise
l)Saying lies
m)Sending away a beggar,particurlar in the nigth,empty handed
n)Behaving badly with relatives
o)Spending more than the capacity
There are Seventeen things which lead to wealth or make one well off;
a)Offering Asr prayers immediately after Zohr prayers
b)Offering Maghrib and Isha prayers together
c)Recitating further prayers and Dua’s after the Morning and Asr prayers
d)Being kind and generous to one’s relatives
e)Going early in the morning to earn one’s living
f)Sweeping the house
g)Recitating Istighfar(i.e.’Astaghfirullah-a-Waatubo Ilaihe’) often
h)Refraining from misappropriation of others proberty
i)Speaking correctly
j)Recitating the words of the muezzin proclaiming the Azan
k)Keeping silent in the toilet
j)Not being greedy for the material things
m)Thanking for the blessings being recieved
n)Washing the hands before taking food
o)Eating the remnants of a meal left on the table cloth
p)Saying ‘Subhan Allah’ thirty times every day
q)A person who will repeatedly say ‘Subhan Allah’ will be keept safe from 70 types of curses by God;one of wich is poverty.
According to Imam Ja’far-e-Sadiq (as),a person who will write a poem or a couplet in praise of Ahlulbayt (as), God will make a house for Him in Heaven.
In another tradition it is stated that a person who wants to write a couplet or a poem in praise of Ahlulbayt (as) is helped by Jibrael (as), The holy angel.
A reliable tradition from Imam Reza (as) states that a person who will write a poem in praise of Ahlulbayt (as) willget a city for him self in Heaven by order of god, wich willbe seven times bigger than the world he lived in.
When he will reach that city,angels willbe near him and all the great Prophets (as) will go to meet him.
According to The holy Prophet(S.A.), a person’s stomach filled with dirty blood and pus is better than a person’s chest filled with couplets or poems which are not in praise of The Almighty God or Ahlulbayt (as); but have for their topics, something against the decency of man.
He has stated that mosques should not be used as a way,coming from one door and leaving by another.
In case one is forced to go through a mosque, one should offer (two rakat) prayers.
Urinating under a fruit-bearing tree or in the middle of the way is prohibated.
Making a concrete grave and praying (regular prayers) in the graveyard are prohibated.
Urinating, while facing towards the sun or the moon, is prohibated.
Women are prohibated to accompany the dead body when it is taken out for funeral purposes.
Making false dreams is prohibated.
If a person does so, he will be asked by The Almigthy to make a knot in the water; and when he will not be able to do it, he willbe punished.
It is also prohibated to interfere when a momin is selling something and saying that one’s thing is better, than that being offered by the momin.
Also, if a momin is buying something, no other momin should become a customer by offering a better price.
A women is prohibated to leave her house without the permission of her husband and in case she goes out, all the nagles, jinns and people of that place get busy cursing her until she returns to her house.
A women is prohibated to beutyfi herself except to please her husband; otherwise it is compulsory for God to burn her in Hell and she is also prohibited to talk more than five sentence to those other than her husband or mahrams (mother,father,brother and sister).
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