ISLAMIC CODE OF ETHICS: Challenges and Beliefs

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From: THE MUSLIM HANDBOOK

Do not make Allah the Cause of not Doing Good

And make not Allah by your oaths and hindrance to your doing good and keeping your duty and making peace between men. And Allah is Hearing, Knowing [Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:224]

CHANGE your Condition

Surely Allah changes not the condition of a people, until they change their own condition [Surah Al-Ra’d, 13:11]

Seek Help through Patience and Prayer

And seek assistance through patience and prayer, and this is hard except for the humble ones [Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:45]

You Cannot Enforce Belief

And it is not for any soul to believe except by Allah’s permission [Surah Yunus, 10:100]

HOPE for Greatness from Allah

What is the matter with you that you hope not for greatness from Allah? [Surah Nuh, 71:13]

Recite Qur’an A LOT

…and recite the Qur’an in a leisurely manner [Surah Al-Muzzamil, 73:4]

Be Contented

Be contented and you will be the richest man in the world [Ahmad]

Be the Strongest of Men

If you put [your] TRUST IN ALLAH, you will be the strongest of men [Ahmad]

 

Be the Best

Among the best of you are those of you who have the best character [Al-Bukhari and Muslim]

Be always Hopeful for there is EASE AFTER HARDSHIP

Surely with difficulty is ease, with difficulty is surely ease [Surah Al-Inshirah, 94:5-6]

DEPEND ENTIRELY ON ALLAH

And TRUST in Allah. And Allah is enough as having charge of affairs [Surah al-Ahzab, 33:3]

 

Excerpts from “The Muslim Handbook” by Br. Mubarak Ali, Ph D.

 

Mubarak Ali, Ph. D., Publisher, 2001

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