Good Deeds

Good Deed: #180 Remember Death Often

3:185 (Y. Ali) Every soul shall have a taste of death: And only on the Day of Judgment shall you be paid your full recompense. Only he who is saved far from the Fire and admitted to the Garden will have attained the object (of Life): For the life of this world is but goods and […]

Good Deed: #179 Stop belittling yourself

49:14 (Y. Ali) The desert Arabs say, “We believe.” Say, “Ye have no faith; but ye (only)say, ‘We have submitted our wills to Allah,’ For not yet has Faith entered your hearts. But if ye obey Allah and His Messenger, He will not belittle aught of your deeds: for Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.” Let […]

Good Deed: #178 Say InshaAllah

76:30 (Y. Ali) But ye will not, except as Allah wills; for Allah is full of Knowledge and Wisdom. 18:23-24 (Y. Ali) Nor say of anything, “I shall be sure to do so and so tomorrow”- Without adding, “So please Allah.” and call thy Lord to mind when thou forgettest, and say, “I hope that my […]

Good Deed: #177 Make Shura – mutual consultation

3:159 (Y. Ali) It is part of the Mercy of Allah that thou dost deal gently with them Wert thou severe or harsh-hearted, they would have broken away from about thee: so pass over (their faults), and ask for (Allah’s) forgiveness for them; and consult them in affairs (of moment). Then, when thou hast taken […]

Good Deed: #176 Pay wages on time

2:279 (Yusuf Ali) – Deal not unjustly, and ye shall not be dealt with unjustly. Abu Hurairah reported that the Messenger of Allah said: The Almighty Allah said : There will be three persons whose opponent I shall become on the Resurrection Day: A man who gave in My name and then broke trust, and […]

Good Deed: #175 Recite Quran with Tajweed

73:4 (Y. Ali) Or a little more; and recite the Qur’an in slow, measured rhythmic tone 18:27 (Y. Ali) And recite (and teach) what has been revealed to thee of the Book of thy Lord: none can change His Words, and none wilt thou find as a refuge other than Him. 2:121 (Y. Ali) Those […]

Good Deed#174: Lower your voice

31:19 (Y. Ali) “And be moderate in thy pace, and lower thy voice; for the harshest of sounds without doubt is the braying of the ass.” 20:44 (Y. Ali) “But speak to him mildly; perchance he may take warning or fear ((Allah)).” Rasul Allah said, ‘Anyone who believes in Allah and the Last Day (of Judgment) should […]

Good Deed: #173 Respect your teachers

51:55 (Y. Ali) But teach (thy Message) for teaching benefits the Believers. 18:65 -70 (Y. Ali) So they found one of Our servants, on whom We had bestowed Mercy from Ourselves and whom We had taught knowledge from Our own Presence. Moses said to him: “May I follow thee, on the footing that thou teach me […]

Good Deed: #172 Lower your gaze

24:30 (Y. Ali) Say to the believing men that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty: that will make for greater purity for them: And Allah is well acquainted with all that they do. 24:31 (Y. Ali) And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they […]

Good Deed: #171 Find Balance

5:87 (Y. Ali) O ye who believe! make not unlawful the good things which Allah hath made lawful for you, but commit no excess: for Allah loveth not those given to excess. 17:29 (Y. Ali) Make not thy hand tied (like a niggard’s) to thy neck, nor stretch it forth to its utmost reach, so […]