Hazrat Abu Zar
Ghifari (r.a.) was one of the closest companions of both the Noble Prophet
(s.a.w.a.s.) and the Commander of the Faithful, Imam Ali (a.s.). He sought for
advice from the Noble Prophet (s.a.w.a.s.) and he (s.a.w.a.s.) gave him a long
list of advices. The complete list of advices are given in the book “Makarem
al-Akhlaq” chapter 12 section 5 compiled by Sheikh al Jaleel Radiyu al Deen Abu
Nasr al Hasan bin al Fadl al Tabrasi. He was one of the greatest scholars of 6
Century A.H.
We are reproducing
below selected advices given by the City of Knowledge the Noble Prophet
(s.a.w.a.s.):
Worship Allah as
if you see Him and if you are not seeing Him surely He sees you. Know that the
first of worship of Allah is “Ma’rifah” gnosis, for He is surely the first
before everything, so there is nothing before Him, the Single most without any
second, the continuing but not to an end. He is the Creator of the heaven and
the earth and whatever is in them and between them and He is the Subtle, the
Aware, and He has power over all things; then belief in me and acknowledgement
that Allah sent me to all humanity as a bearer of glad tidings, a warner, a
caller(of people) to Allah by His permission as an illuminating torch of light,
then the love of the People of My House, Those from whom Allah has kept away
every impurity and purified them a perfect Purification.
Allah, the Great, the Majestic has made my Ahlul Bayt the
likeness of the ship of Nooh, whoever rides it is safe, whoever desires other
than that is drowned. He has made them the likeness of the “Gate of Jericho”
among the Banu Isra’il, whoever enters the Gate is safe. There are two
blessings taken for granted (misused) by the mankind, health and spare time.
Take advantage of the five things before five things seize you; your youth
before your old age, your health before your sickness, your wealth before
poverty, your spare time before you become busy, your life before your death.
Be in the world as if you are stranger or like one simply passing by as in a
journey. When you wake up in the morning don’t talk to yourself about tonight
and when night has come don’t worry of the morning for surely you don’t know
your state will be tomorrow. Be greedier, in terms of your life span more than
of your gold and silver (wealth). When you are asked of some knowledge you know
not say “I do not know”. The pious are the masters. And the learned are the
leaders. Keeping their company increases goodness. Surely Allah, when He wills
good for a servant he put his sins before his two eyes. Don’t look at the
smallness of a sin but look at the one you disobeyed. Surely a man’s sustenance
is prohibited (from reaching him) because of a sin he committed. Do not speak
of that which does not concern you, and guard your tongue like you guard your
money. Allah, glorious is His praise, has made the pleasure of my in Salaat,
and has made me to love the Salaat like food is made loveable to the hungry and
water to the thirsty. And surely the hungry one, when he eats, he is satiated
and the thirsty one, when he drinks he is quenched but I am not satiated from
Salaat. Surely as long as you are in Salaat, you are knocking at the door of
the Great King, and whoever knocks much at the door of the King it will be
opened for him. There is no believer who stands in Salaat but falls on him
goodness what is between him and the Throne. An angel calls out: “O Son of
Adam, if you knew what there is for you in Salaat and who you are calling, you
would not turn away.” Salaat is the pillar of the religion. Allah says: “I will
not combine for my servant two fears nor two safeties. So when he feels safe
from me in the world, I make him fear on the Day of Judgment. And when he fears
me in the world, I give him safety on the Day of Judgment.” When Allah wants
good for a servant He gives him understanding in religion and makes him to see
his own faults. No servant abstains in the world but Allah causes wisdom to
grow in his heart, and causes his tongue to utter it, and gives him insights of
the faults of the world and its sickness and its cures and causes him to leave
from it safely into the abode of peace. The harvest of the Hereafter is the
good deeds. Fear Allah and don’t show mankind that you fear Allah so they honor
you while your heart is evil. Let there be for you a pious intention, even when
it comes to sleeping and eating. Lower your voice during a funeral, during the
fighting, and during the recitation of the Glorious Qur’an. Two moderate cycles
of prayers (rak’at) with pondering is better than standing all night in prayer
with a neglectful heart. Truth is heavy and bitter and the false hood is light
and sweet, the (fulfillment of the) desire of an hour will yield a long period
of grief. Some supplication with good deeds is sufficient just as some salt is
sufficient with food.
Source used: al-Islam.org/ The Advice the Prophet (s) gave
to Abu Dharr
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