• O! The one that is more beloved to me than my own soul, know ALLAH.
• Anything that you preach, practice it first.
• Speak according to your rank.
• Recognize the respect of people.
• Recognize the rights of people.
• Guard your secrets.
• Test your friends in times of trouble.
• Try out your friends in times of profit and loss.
• Keep away from stupid people.
• Be a friend of clever and wise men.
• Show your efforts in good work.
• Plan with clever and wise men.
• Speak with affection.
• Value your youth.
• While you are young do the work of this world and hereafter.
• Honour your friends.
• Deal with your friends and enemies in a honest way.
• Regard your parents as a blessing.
• Regard your teacher as your best guardian.
• Spend according to your income.
• In all your work take the middle course.
• Serve your guests to the best of your ability.
• Make generosity a habit.
• When entering somebody’s home look after your eyes and tongue.
• Keep your clothes and body clean.
• Be friendly to your society.
• Teach your son knowledge and discipline.
• Teach your son, if possible, archery and horsemanship.
• When dressing start by putting on your shoes and socks on your right foot,
and when taking them off, begin with the left foot.
• When working with somebody, work recording to his capacity.
• While speaking at night, speak softly; and while speaking during the day,
first keep an eye on all sides.
• Don’t stretch in front of people.
• Anything that you don’t like for yourself; don’t prefer it for others.
• Work with intelligence and planning.
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Don’t try to teach when you are not learned.
• Don’t tell your secrets to women and children.
• Don’t set your heart on things
which belong to others.
• Form a habit of speaking less,
eating less and sleeping less.
• Don’t undertake any work without thinking.
• Undone work should not be thought
as completed.
• Do not leave today’s work for tomorrow.
• Don’t joke with your elders.
• Don’t bore your elders with lengthy talks.
• Do not encourage people to be rude to you.
• Don’t disappoint a man in need.
• Do not remember past disputes.
• Don’t confuse your own good with the benefits of others.
• Do not show your wealth to friends and enemies.
• Don’t ignore your relationship with relatives.
• Don’t scandalize about people.
• Don’t admire yourself.
• If a group of men are standing, do likewise and stand.
• Don’t point fingers at others.
• Don’t pick your teeth in front of others.
• Don’t spit or clean your nose loudly.
• When yawning keep your hand in front of your mouth.
• Don’t expect loyalty from ill-bred people.
• Don’t pick your nose in front of others.
• Don’t speak nonsense.
• Don’t make people ashamed in front of others.
• Don’t repeat something that has been said already.
• Don’t make signs with your eyes and eyebrows.
• Don’t praise yourself and your family in front of others.
• Don’t decorate yourself like a woman.
• Don’t do what your children want you foolishly to do.
• Guard your tongue.
• Don’t gesticulate when speaking.
• Look after the respect of people.
• Don’t mix with offenders.
• Don’t recall the dead by their ill-doings, because there is no benefit in it.
• As long as possible try not to start fights and arguments.
• Don’t continuously test your strength on others.
• Don’t take an experienced person to be noble.
• Don’t eat your bread at the table of others.
• Don’t hurry in your work.
• Don’t grieve over worldly things.
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Don’t become acquainted with anybody that
does not value himself.
• At times of anger say things thoughtfully.
• Don’t clean your nose with your sleeves.
• Don’t sleep at sunrise.
• Don’t eat in front of others.
• When walking with your elders, don’t walk in
front of them.
• Don’t interrupt other people’s talks.
• Don’t rest your head on your knees in the
presence of others.
• While you are walking look where you are going and do not look around.
• If possible don’t ride a horse bare-back.
• Don’t order your guests to do something for you.
• Don’t speak to a lunatic or a drunken man.
• Don’t get angry with any one in the presence of your guests.
• Don’t sit with loiterers and doubtful characters in the street.
• Don’t lose your respect for the sake of profit and loss.
• Don’t be a wastrel and proud of yourself.
• Don’t carry people’s enmity on to yourself.
• Keep away from strife and trouble.
• Don’t be without a pocket knife, a ring, and some money.
• Be friendly to people, but not to the extent that you may lose your own respect.
• Don’t belittle yourself.
• Devote your life and with Allah by truthfulness.
• Devote your life and with your ego by discipline.
• Devote your life and with people by being just.
• Devote your life and with your elders by service.
• Devote your life and with your young by being sympathetic.
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Devote your life and with the poor
by generosity.
• Devote your life and with your friends
by advice and love.
• Devote your life and with your enemies
by patience.
• Devote your life and with the ignorant
by silence.
• Devote your life and with the wise men
by respect.
• Don’t covet others wealth, and in this manner spend your life.
• When you have a lot don’t store, and when it comes, don’t refuse it.
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Remember 2 things and forget one;
1.Remember Allah and your death
2.and forget your good deeds.
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I have carried steel and stones
but nothing is heavier
than (the Amaanat) of Deen.
• I have experienced comfort and pleasure,
but nothing is more pleasurable than safety.
• I have tasted bitterness of all kinds,
but nothing is bitterer than
dependence on others.
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I learnt good manners from
the bad mannered.
• I learnt wisdom from the blind who
do not put their feet forward
without feeling the ground.
• There can never be a spoken or written word
from which the wise cannot derive benefit.
• Even a hundred books of wisdom
cannot make a fool wiser,
if he is not ready to benefit from them.