Advices of Luqmaan(A.S.)

• O! the one that is more beloved to me than my own soul,know Allah.
• Anything that you preach,practice it first. 
• Speak according to your rank.
• Recognize the respect of people. 
• Recognize the rights of people.
• Guard your secrets.
• Test your friends in times of trouble.
• Try out your friends in times of profit and loss.
• Keep away from stupid people.
• Be a friend of clever and wise men.
• Show your efforts in good work.
• Plan with clever and wise men.
• Speak with affection.
• Value your youth. 
• While you are young do the work of this world and hereafter. 
• Honour your friends.
• Deal with your friends and enemies in a honest way.
• Regard your parents as a blessing.
• Regard your teacher as your best guardian.
• Spend according to your income. 
• In all your work take the middle course.
• Serve your guests to the best of your ability.
• Make generosity a habit.
• When entering somebody’s home look after your eyes and tongue.
• Keep your clothes and body clean.
• Be friendly to your society.
• Teach your son knowledge and discipline.
• Teach your son,if possible,archery and horsemanship.
• When dressing start by putting on your shoes and socks on your right foot,and when taking them off,begin with the left foot.
• When working with somebody,work recording to his capacity.
• While speaking at night,speak softly; and while speaking during the day, first keep an eye on all sides.
• Don’t stretch in front of people.
• Anything that you don’t like for yourself;don’t prefer it for others.
• Work with intelligence and planning.
• Don’t try to teach when you are not learned.
• Don’t tell your secrets to women and children.
• Don’t set your heart on things which belong to others.
• Form a habit of speaking less,eating less and sleeping less.
• Don’t undertake any work without thinking.
• Undone work should not be thought as completed.
• Do not leave today’s work for tomorrow.
• Don’t joke with your elders.
• Don’t bore your elders with lenghty talks.
• Do not encourage people to be rude to you. 
• Don’t disappoint a man in need.
• Do not remember past disputes. 
• Don’t confuse your own good with the benefits of others.
• Do not show your wealth to friends and enemies.
• Don’t ignore your relationship with relatives.
• Don’t scandalize about people.
• Don’t admire yourself.
• If a group of men are standing,do likewise and stand. 
• Don’t point fingers at others.
• Don’t pick your teeth in front of others.
• Don’t spit or clean your nose loudly.
• When yawning keep your hand in front of your mouth.
• Don’t expect loyalty from ill-bred people.
• Don’t pick your nose in front of others.
• Don’t speak nonsense.
• Don’t make people ashamed in front of others.
• Don’t repeat something that has been said already.
• Don’t make signs with your eyes and eyebrows.
• Don’t praise yourself and your family in front of others.
• Don’t decorate yourself like a woman.
• Don’t do what your children want you foolishly to do.
• Guard your tongue.
• Don’t gesticulate when speaking.
• Look after the respect of people. 
• Don’t mix with offenders.
• Don’t recall the dead by their ill-doings, because there is no benefit in it.
• As long as possible try not to start fights and arguments.
• Don’t continously test your strength on others.
• Don’t take an experienced person to be noble.
• Don’t eat your bread at the table of others.
• Don’t hurry in your work. 
• Don’t grieve over worldly things.
• Don’t become acquainted with anybody that does not value himself.
• At times of anger say things thoughtfully.
• Don’t clean your nose with your sleeves.
• Don’t sleep at sunrise.
• Don’t eat in front of others.
• When walking with your elders,don’t walk in front of them.
• Don’t interrupt other peoples talks.
• Don’t rest your head on your knees in the presence of others.
• While you are walking look where you are going and do not look around.
• If possible don’t ride a horse bare-back.
• Don’t order your guests to do something for you.
• Don’t speak to a lunatic or a drunk man.
• Don’t get angry with any one in the presence of your guests. 
• Don’t sit with loiterers and doubtful characters in the street. 
• Don’t lose your respect for the sake of profit and loss.
• Don’t be a wastrel and proud of yourself.
• Don’t carry peoples enmity on to yourself.
• Keep away from strife and trouble.
• Don’t be without a pocket knife,a ring,and some money.
• Be friendly to people,but not to the extent that you may lose your own respect.
• Don’t belittle yourself. 
• Devote your life and with Allah by truthfulness.
• Devote your life and with your ego by discipline.
• Devote your life and with people by being just.
• Devote your life and with your elders by service. 
• Devote your life and with your young by being sympathetic. 
• Devote your life and with the poor by generosity.
• Devote your life and with your friends by advice and love.
• Devote your life and with your enemies by patience.
• Devote your life and with the ignorant by silence.
• Devote your life and with the wise men by respect. 
• Don’t covet others wealth, and in this manner spend your life. 
• When you have a lot don’t store, and when it comes, don’t refuse it. 
• Remember 2 things and forget one;1.Remember Allah and your death 2.and forget your good deeds.
• I have carried steel and stones but nothing is heavier than (the Amaanat) of Deen.
• I have experienced comfort and pleasure, but nothing is more pleasurable than safety.
• I have tasted bitterness of all kinds, but nothing is more bitter than dependance on others. 
• I learnt good manners from the bad mannered.
• I learnt wisdom from the blind who do not put their feet forward without feeling the ground. 
• There can never be a spoken or written word from which the wise cannot derive benefit.
• Even a hundred books of wisdom cannot make a fool wiser,if he is not ready to benefit from them.

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