Vol. Iرِيَاضُ الصَّالِحِين
Riyad-us-Saliheen
Gardens of the Righteous — Sincerity, Repentance & Devotion
Riyad-us-Saliheen (Abridged) — Tahzeebu Dalilul Faliheen, Dar Al-Manarah, 1423 AH / 2003 AC · 618 sections · 115k words
Contents
- ·Author's Introduction
- 1Sincerity and Intention
- 2Repentance
- 3About Patience
- 4Truthfulness
- 5Al-Moraqaba (Momentary Self-Accountability)
- 6About Piety or Spirituality
- 7About Certitude and Reliance
- 8About Uprightness
- 9Reflecting the Perfect Creatures of Allah and Disciplining the Soul
- 10About Competing in Doing Good Deeds
- 11About Al-Mujahada (Struggling against the Soul)
- 12Doing Good Deeds Increasingly in Old Age
- 13About Multiplicity of the Ways of the good Deeds
- 14About Moderation in the Acts of Obedience
- 15About Continuing to do Good Deeds
- 16About Acting upon Sunna
- 17About Properly Accepting Allah's Judgment
- 18About Forbidding Innovation and Newly-Invented Matters in Religious Practices
- 19About Reviving an Act of Sunna
- 20About Guiding Others to Doing good Deeds
- 21About Cooperation for Noble Ends
- 22About Giving Advice
- 23About Enjoining What is Just and Forbidding What is Unjust
- 24About Severity of Punishment of the One Who Enjoins What is Just and Practices What is Unjust
- 25About Repaying a Deposit
- 26About the Forbiddance of Oppression
- 27About the Inviolability of the Muslims ' Honors and Treating Them Kindly
- 28About Veiling the Defects of the Muslims
- 29About Satisfying Muslims ' Needs
- 30About Interceding for Others
- 31About Making Peace among People
- 32About the Supremacy of the Weak Muslims
- 33About Treating the Orphans kindly
- 34About Treating Women Kindly
- 35About the Husband's Right on His Wife
- 36About Spending on One's Family
- 37About Spending Legitimate Earnings
- 38About Advising One's Family Member to obey Allah
- 39About the Neighbor's Rights
- 40About Dutifulness to the Parents and Relatives
- 41About the Forbiddance of Being Undutiful to Parents
- 42About the Superiority of Showing Dutifulness to One's
- 43About Revering the People of Knowledge and the Virtuous People
- 44About Accompanying and Love of the Righteous People
- 45About Superiority of Love for Allah's Sake
- 46About Signs of Allah's Love of His Devotees
- 47About Warning against Harming the Righteous, the Weak, and the Destitute
- 48About Judging People in accordance with their Apparent Behavior
- 49About Fearing Allah
- 50About Longing for Allah's Forgiveness
- 51About the Superiority of Yearning for What is with Allah
- 52About Combining between Fear and Hope
- 53About Superiority of Weeping out of Fearing Allah
- 54About Abstention from Worldly Delights
- 55About the Superiority of an Austere Life
- 56About Contentment with Small Things and Spending
- 57About Earning one's Livelihood Lawfully
- 58About Giving Generously out of Reliance on Allah
- 59About the Forbiddance of Miserliness
- 60About Preferring Others to Oneself and Giving to them Liberally
- 61About Competing in the Deeds for the Hereafter
- 62About the Superiority of the Thankful Wealthy One
- 63About Mentioning Death and short Hope
- 64Frequenting the Graveyards
- 65About the Dislike of Hoping for Death due to Affliction
- 66About Scruples and the Abandonment of Doubtful Matters
- 67About the Desirability of Isolation
- 68About Socializing with People
- 69About Modesty and Leniency
- 70About the Forbiddance of Arrogance
- 71About Good Character
- 72About Perseverance, Forbearance, and Tolerance
- 73About Pardoning People and Tolerating Them
- 74About Bearing Harm
- 75About Being Jealous when Allah's Sanctities are Violated
- 76About the People in Authority
- 77About the Just Ruler
- 78About the Obligation of Obeying the Rulers in Justice
- 79About the Forbiddance of Asking for a Ruling Position
- 80About Urging the Muslim Ruler to have Righteous Helpers (Ministers)
- 81About Superiority of Modesty
- 82About Revealing Confidences
- 83About the Fulfillment of One's Promises
- 84About Continuing to do Good Deeds One has become Accustomed to Doing
- 85About Speaking Kind Words and Smiling at Others
- 86About Clear Articulation of Speech
- 87About Listening Attentively to a Companion's Speech
- 88About Keeping Religious Speeches Brief
- 89About Self-Possession and Tranquility
- 90About Attending the Prayer and the Circles of Knowledge with Tranquility and Self-Possession
- 91About Entertaining a Guest
- 92About the Desirability of Giving Good Tidings and Congratulations on Occasions
- 93About Bidding Farewell to One's Companions
- 94About Consultation
- 95About Going to Eid Prayers by One Route and Returning by Another
- 96About Starting with the Right Side for Honorable Acts
- 97About Reciting Al-tasmiya at the Beginning of a Meal and Al-hamd at its End
- 98About not Criticizing Food, but Praising it is Recommendable
- 99About what a Fasting Person should do if He attends a Banquet
- 100About One who was invited to a Meal and another Person went with him
- 101About giving Directions to the One who eats Improperly
- 102About the Forbiddance of Eating Two
- 103About what a Gluttonous Person should do
- 104About the Order of Eating What is next to One
- 105About the Dislike of Eating while Reclining
- 106About the Desirability of Eating with Three Fingers
- 107About Gathering many People for Food
- 108About the Manner of Drinking
- 109About the Dislike of Blowing on a Drink
- 110About the One serving the Drink is the last One to Drink
- 111About the Permissibility of Drinking from any Sort of Material, except Gold and Silver
- 112About the Desirability of White Garments, the Permissibility of other Colors, and the Forbiddance of Silk Clothes
- 113About the Desirability of Wearing Shirts
- 114About the Forbiddance of Silky
- 115About the Permissibility of wearing Silk by Men due to Medical Reasons
- 116About the Forbiddance of Sitting and Riding on Tigers ' Skin
- 117About the Invocation a Muslim should use upon wearing New Clothing or Footwear
- 118About the Manner of Sleeping and Reclining
- 119About the Permissibility of Lying on the Back placing One Leg on the Other provided One is Covering One's Awrah
- 120About the Manners of Sitting with One's Companions
- 121About Vision and What is Related to it
- 122About the Superiority of Greeting People with the Islamic Greeting
- 123About the Form of the Islamic Greeting
- 124About How to make the Islamic Greeting
- 125About Repeating the Islamic Greeting whenever a Muslim meets his Muslim Brother
- 126About the Desirability of Greeting One's Family
- 127About Greeting the Adolescents
- 128About Greeting One's Wife, Mahram Women, and Non-Mahram Women if one does not fear Fanaticism by them
- 129About Initiating a Greeting to a Disbeliever
- 130About the Manners of asking Permission to Enter
- 131About the One asking Permission to enter giving his Full Name or Nickname
- 132About Responding to a Sneezer
- 133About the Desirability of Shaking Hands and Smiling on Meeting Others