Chapter 4 · Section 3

Morality and Good Character

الأخلاق

Trustworthiness, humility and arrogance, greetings, dealing with non-Muslims, checking the news, and other parts of good character.

91 answers from the Quran and Sunnah, reviewed by Professor Khaled Al-Houli

All 91 questions

  1. Allah Has Warned Against Defrauding: What Is It?
  2. Does Defrauding Apply Beyond Weights and Measures, Including Work and Worship?
  3. What Are the Reasons for Defrauding?
  4. What Harm Does Defrauding Cause the Individual and the Community?
  5. How Did Islam Address the Violation of Defrauding?
  6. What Is Perjury?
  7. Allah Has Forbidden Perjury: What Is the Reason for This Prohibition?
  8. How Does One Repent From False Testimony?
  9. What Are the Consequences of Perjury?
  10. The Quran Mentions Two Kinds of Spoken Words: What Are They?
  11. What Is the Meaning of a Good Word?
  12. What Does a Good Word Mean in Islam?
  13. What Is Meant by the Good Word Compared to a Good Tree in Ibrahim 14:24?
  14. How Can I Say a Good Word?
  15. What Effect Does a Good Word Have on a Person in This Life and the Hereafter?
  16. How Can a Person Protect Himself From Evil Words?
  17. How Can I Avoid Saying an Evil Word Without Realizing It?
  18. What Is the Good Word Allah Compared to a Tree, and What Do They Have in Common?
  19. Why Does Taha 20:130 Say ‘So That You May Be Pleased’ and Not ‘So That Allah May Be Pleased With You’?
  20. What Is the Difference Between Backbiting, Gossip, and Slander?
  21. What Is the Proof From the Quran and Sunnah That Backbiting and Gossip Are Forbidden?
  22. How Do We Prevent or Cure Backbiting and Gossip?
  23. How Does One Repent From Backbiting?
  24. In Which Cases Is Backbiting Permitted?
  25. Why Did Allah Almighty Forbid Spying?
  26. What Is Meant by Intercession in An-Nisa 4:85?
  27. What Is the Meaning of Mockery?
  28. What Is the Ruling on Mocking the Religion?
  29. What Is the Ruling on Mocking People and Their Worldly Affairs?
  30. What Is the Ruling on Mocking Others as a Joke?
  31. What Is the Punishment for Those Who Mock the Religion?
  32. What Is a Muslim’s Attitude Toward Those Who Mock the Religion?
  33. What Is the Definition of an Orphan?
  34. What Are the Rights of the Orphan?
  35. What Is the Etiquette for Dealing With an Orphan?
  36. What Is the Virtue of Sponsoring an Orphan?
  37. What Are the Forms of Sponsoring an Orphan?
  38. What Is the Difference Between Orphan Sponsorship and Adoption?
  39. Why Is Adoption Forbidden in Islam?
  40. Can the Orphan’s Guardian Spend From the Orphan’s Money?
  41. When Is the Orphan Given His Money?
  42. Allah Swears by the Sun and Moon: May a Person Swear by Them?
  43. What Is Meant by Thoughtless Oaths in Al-Baqarah 2:225?
  44. What Is the Solemnized Oath (Al-Yamin Al-Mughallazah)?
  45. When Is Expiation for a Broken Oath Required?
  46. What Is the False Oath (Al-Yamin Al-Ghamus)?
  47. What Is the Ruling on Breaking an Oath, and What Is It Called in the Sharia?
  48. What Is the Expiation for Breaking an Oath?
  49. Is It Permissible to Swear by Anything Other Than Allah?
  50. Should Expiation for an Oath Come Before or After Breaking It?
  51. What Is the Meaning of Unintentional Killing?
  52. What Are the Types of Killing in Islam?
  53. What Is the Atonement for Unintentional Killing?
  54. What Is the Blood Money for the Deceased?
  55. What Is the Punishment for Intentional Killing?
  56. Is There Repentance for Intentional Killing?
  57. What Are the Crimes That Deserve the Death Penalty in the Sharia?
  58. What Does Hypocrisy (Nifaq) Mean?
  59. What Is Hypocrisy From an Islamic View?
  60. What Are the Traits of a Hypocrite?
  61. What Is the Difference Between Hypocrisy and Showing Off (Riya)?
  62. Why Are Hypocrites Considered Dangerous?
  63. How Can a Person Get Rid of the Trait of Hypocrisy?
  64. How Should a Muslim Deal With Hypocrites?
  65. What Is the Abode of the Hypocrites on Judgment Day?
  66. What Is the Ruling on the Funeral Prayer for a Hypocrite?
  67. What Is the Meaning of Justice in Islam?
  68. What Are the Consequences of the Absence of Justice?
  69. What Is the Difference Between Equality and Justice?
  70. What Are the Merits of Feeding Others for the Sake of Allah?
  71. What Types of Food Can Be Given to the Needy?
  72. Whom Should a Muslim Feed?
  73. What Is the Punishment for Denying Food to the Needy?
  74. Which Sins Did Allah Command Us to Expiate by Feeding?
  75. What Is the Ruling on Entering an Inhabited House?
  76. What Is the Ruling in: If You Are Asked to Go Back, Go Back?
  77. What Is the Islamic Etiquette for Entering a Home?
  78. What Is the Verse Commanding Justice With People in Measure?
  79. Should a Muslim Reconcile Two Quarrelling Believers?
  80. What Is the Importance of Intention to a Muslim?
  81. When May a Muslim Disobey His Parents?
  82. How Should a Person Treat His Parents?
  83. What Does Their Hearts Have Been Stained (83:14) Mean?
  84. How Should a Muslim Greet Muslims and People of Other Faiths?
  85. How Does a Muslim Deal With Non-Muslims at Work and Socially?
  86. What Are Arrogance and Boasting in Islam, and Their Ruling?
  87. How Should a Muslim Handle News From Unreliable Sources?
  88. What Is the Definition of Trustworthiness (Amanah)?
  89. What Are the Forms of Trustworthiness in Islam?
  90. How Does a Person Acquire Trustworthiness?
  91. Is Trustworthiness Mentioned in the Quran and Sunnah?

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