Forty Hadeeth on the Islamic Personality
Select Hadeeth
1: Purity and Sincerity of Intention
2: Distinctness
3: Justice and Being Justly Balanced
4: Striving Against One's Desires
5: Gentleness
6: Returning to the Truth
7: Responsibility
8: The Muslim Seeks to Make Excuses for Other Muslims
9: The Muslim does not Harbour Envy
10: Following and Applying Divine Guidance
11: The Muslim Has No Free Time
12: The Muslim's Piety and Self Restraint
13: The Muslim is Honest and Truthful in All His Affairs
14: Knowledge for Knowledge
15: The Believer is a Mirror for His Brother
16: The Muslim's Struggle and His Devil
17: Remembrance of Allah
18: The Muslim Does Not Fall Into Backbiting
19: The Muslim Does Not Pry into the Matters that do not Concern Him
20: All of His Actions are for Allah
21: The Muslim Repents and Turns Back to Allah
22: The Essential Characteristics of His Personality
23: Honest Jesting
24: A Time for This and a Time for That
25: He Does Not Take Sins Lightly
26: The Muslim Does not Commit Oppression
27: He is not a carrier of Malicious Reports
28: He is not Attached to This World
29: Disassociation from this World
30: Good Actions
31: The Muslim is Contented and Satisfied
32: Devotion to the Religion of Islaam
33: How the Muslim Deals With People
34: Visiting Brothers
35: The Muslim's Character
36: The Muslim Knows His Own Worth
37: He Hopes for good for Himself and His Brothers
38: Ordering Good and Forbidding Evil
39: Being Cautious to Avoid Animosity and Dissention
40: The Means To Escape the Trial which Befalls the People
