KITABUL MA’AMLAAT WAL MUASHRAT
(The Book of Affairs and Society)
- Importance
- Elementary Obligations of Parents
- Calling of azan in the ear of a new-born child
- Tahnik
- Aqiqah
- Tasmiyan (The giving of a name)
- Good breeding and religious upbringing
- Importance of showing kindness to daughters
- Equality of children in liberality and beneficence
- Responsibility of marriage
- Rights of Parents on Children
- Parents are the heaven and hell of the children
- The good pleasure of the lord is related to the good pleasure of the parents
- Claim of mothers is greater
- Unfortunate is he who is not regardful of needs and comforts of his aged parents
- Service of the parents is preferable even to jihad in certain circumstances
- Heaven lies under the feet of the mother
- Service of the mother can atonc for major major sins
- Even an infidal or polytheist mother has a claim to kindly feelings and sympathy
- Specials rights of parents after their death
- Worldly advantages of showing kindness and obedience to parents
- Disobedience and cruelty towards parents is a most grievous sin
- Rights of other relatives
- Other blessings
- Serving is an impediment to salvation
- Showing kindness even to those who server the ties of kinship
- Mutual Rights and Duties of Husband and Wife
- The foremost claim on wife is of her husband
- If prostration was allowed before anyone besides ALLAH a wife would have prostrated before her husband
- Prostrated is only for ALLAH
- Obedience and loyalty to husband
- Rights of wives and respicting them
- Advice kindly treatment to wives
- Good and kindly treatment to wives is a condition of perfection in faith
- Behaviour of holy PROPHET to his wives
- The question of doll and pictures
- Competition in a race
- Showing a sport to sayyidah ayshah
- The sport was in the nature of a dril, and that was why the PROPHET had watched it himself
- The question of hijab
- Rights of Neighbours
- Continuous us exhortation of jibrail (Gabriel) with regard to the rights of neighbours
- Love of ALLAH and His PROPHET depends on
- Good and kindly treatment towards the neighbours is an essential condition of faith
- He is not a true believer and will not go to heaven whose neighbours do not feel secure on his account
- He is not a Muslim who eats his fill while his neighbour goes hungry
- Some specific rights of neighbours
- Three categories of neighbours: Non-Muslim neighbours, too have their rights
- Caring for the instruction of the neighbours
- Rights of Weaker and Poor Sections
- Carsing for the indigent, The widow and the orphan
- Attending to the needs of the poor, The sick and the distressed
- Slaves and Servants
- Basic rights of slaves
- Brotherly treatment
- The slave or servant must be given the food to eat which he cooks for the master
- Slaves should be forgiven if they commit a mistake
- Revenge will be taken from the oppressors of atonement of cruelty to slaves
- Last testament of the PROPHET (PBUH) concerning slaves
- Loyalty of slave to their masters
- Behaviour of the old and the young towards each other
- Rights of Islamic Fraternity
- A strong building
- Some special claims
- Defence of the honour of a Muslim
- A Muslim is Muslim’s mirror
- Attitude towards mankind, in general, and all created being
- Kindness to animals
- Rules and Properties of Meetings
- Importance of salaam
- Diving reward
- Salaam on coming into or going out of one’s own house or Anyother place
- Some other rules and regulations
- When not to salute?
- Shaking hands
- Propitiousness and reward
- Embracing, kissing and standing
- Taking permission before entering a house
- Offering of a seat to visitors next to oneself
- No one should be told to vacate his seat for oneself
- No one should sit between two persons without their permission
- Whoever likes people to stand up for ilim, out of respect, is doomed to hell
- The messenger of ALLAH MOHAMMAD (PBUH) did not like people to stand up In His honour
- Everyone ought to rise when the head of the assembly rises to leave
- Teachings of the PROPHET(PBUH) Concerning Lying, Sitting, Sleeping and His Own Practice
- Forbidding sleeping on a roof
- Forbidding sleeping with the tight of one leg in an upright position and the other leg resting on it
- Forbidding lying on stomach
- How did the PROPHET lie?
- Miswak on waking up
- Manner of sitting
- Those who come to a meeting or assembly should sit at the edge
- Wrong to sit in the middle of a group of persons
- Forbidding people from sitting in separate groups
- One should not sit in such a way that a part of his body was in the sun, and the other in the shade
- Guidance Regarding Talking, Laughing, Sneezing and Yawing in Company
- Speech should not be prolonged unnecessary
- Speech can be a cause of felicity and happiness as well as misery
- Care should be taken while praising anyone
- Poetry
- Wit and humour
- Laughter
- Sneezing and yawing
- Eating and Drinking
- Lawful and unlawful food
- Liquids for Drinking
- Prohibition of strong drink
- Warning of punishment
- Even a small quantity of wine forbidden
- Wine should not be used even as medicine
- Waging war against a community which insist on drinking
- Severe denunciation
- All intoxicants are forbidden
- A prophecy regarding indulgence in wine by Muslims
- Some exceptional rules and commandments
- Nabeez is a pure and lawful beverage, and the messenger of ALLAH (PBUH), too, used to drink it
- The PROPHET (PBUH) liked a cool and sweet drink
- Sweet water for the messenger of ALLAH (PBUH)
- Properties
- Washing hands before and after a meal
- Wiping and drying hands
- Remembering God and taking His name before commencing to eat
- Eating with the right hand
- Taking off shoes while sitting down to a meal
- Food should not be taken too hot
- Auspiciousness of eating together
- Eating from the sides of vessel
- Food left over in the plate or on fingers
- The morsel that drops from the hands should also be eaten
- If a fly drops in meal
- The PROPHET’s attitude of humbleness while taking a meal
- Forbidding the use of gold or silver vessels
- The PROPHET(PBUH) never found fault with food
- The PROPHET’s favourite dishes
- Praising the lord and expressing gratitude to Him after a meal
- Forbidding drinking in one breath
- Forbidding breathing into the vessel from which one is drinking
- Forbidding drinking in the standing posture
- Dress
- Clothes are a blessing of the lord
- Forbidding a dress that does not cover the body properly is unfit in any other way
- Forbidding an excessively thin dress, also, is permitted to women with certain condition
- Ostentation in dress
- Vanity
- Forbidding gold and silk to men
- Forbidding bright red color to men
- Men should not dress like women, nor women like men
- While clothes are preferable for men
- It is not proper for the well-to-do to live miserably
- Live well without being vain and wasteful
- Do not look clumsy or awkward
- Keeping the hair neat and tidy
- Simplicity and destitution, too, is an aspect of faith reward on simplicity in dress
- Dress of the PROPHRT (PBUH)
- The PROPHET (PBUH) began with the right side when putting on a dress
- The prayer of the PROPHET(PBUH) at the time of wearing a new garment
- Wearing shoes
- Wearing a ring or seal
- Beard, moustache and other personal characteristics using hens by women
- Satr and Hijab
- Necessary satr
- Hiding nakedness even when alone
- Observing hijab by women
- Casting amorous glances
- Seeing a non-mahram woman by chance
- Getting seized with an evil desire on seeing a woman
- Forbidding meeting a non-mahram woman in privacy