format_quote Originally Posted by
greenhill
I read somewhere (in the Quran or was it a hadeeth?) where it is said that none is a true believer until he wishes for his neighbors what he wishes for himself. How selfless we have to be... a very hard 'state of being' to arrive at... Why is it that we feel the need to have better things than anyone else???? :hmm:
:peace:
yeah a hadith, and very true its easier to just worry about yourself.
format_quote Originally Posted by
Beyondalina
What does the Quran have to say about the qualities of a believer?
well many places in the quran address this. I'll just post a couple more concise ones for example:
surah muminun 1-9
1. Successful indeed are the believers.
2. Those who offer their
Salat (prayers) with all solemnity and full submissiveness.
3. And those who turn away from
Al-Laghw (dirty, false, evil vain talk, falsehood, and all that Allah has forbidden).
4. And those who pay the
Zakat .
5. And those who guard their chastity (i.e. private parts, from illegal sexual acts)
6. Except from their wives or (the captives and slaves) that their right hands possess, for then, they are free from blame;
7. But whoever seeks beyond that, then those are the transgressors;
8. Those who are faithfully true to their
Amanat (all the duties which Allah has ordained, honesty, moral responsibility and trusts etc.) and to their covenants;
9. And those who strictly guard their (five compulsory congregational)
Salawat (prayers) (at their fixed stated hours).
surah furqan 63-74
63. And the slaves of the Most Beneficent (Allah) are those who walk on the earth in humility and sedateness, and when the foolish address them (with bad words) they reply back with mild words of gentleness.
64. And those who spend the night before their Lord, prostrate and standing.
65. And those who say: "Our Lord! Avert from us the torment of Hell. Verily! Its torment is ever an inseparable, permanent punishment."
66. Evil indeed it (Hell) is as an abode and as a place to dwell.
67. And those, who, when they spend, are neither extravagant nor niggardly, but hold a medium (way) between those (extremes).
68. And those who invoke not any other
ilah (god) along with Allah, nor kill such life as Allah has forbidden, except for just cause, nor commit illegal sexual intercourse and whoever does this shall receive the punishment.
69. The torment will be doubled to him on the Day of Resurrection, and he will abide therein in disgrace;
70. Except those who repent and believe (in Islamic Monotheism), and do righteous deeds, for those, Allah will change their sins into good deeds, and Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
71. And whosoever repents and does righteous good deeds, then verily, he repents towards Allah with true repentance.
72. And those who do not witness falsehood, and if they pass by some evil play or evil talk, they pass by it with dignity.
73. And those who, when they are reminded of the
Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) of their Lord, fall not deaf and blind thereat.
74. And those who say: "Our Lord! Bestow on us from our wives and our offspring who will be the comfort of our eyes, and make us leaders for the
Muttaqun"(pious - see V.2:2 and the footnote of V.3:164)."