_Imām Ibn Qudāmah Al-Maqdisi -rahimahullāh-_
Said:
*THE SIGNS OF GOOD CHARACTERS.*
Know verily – may the mercy of Allāh be upon you – that, some of devout worshippers thinks that by only shunning away and purifying themselves from sins and fawāsh without training themselves on the rest of the attributes of believers suffices them, hence they need not to strive again.
But this is not the case. For by combining all the attributes of the believers makes one to attain purification and high status in the side of Allāh Azzawajal.
In this context, Allāh says in the glorious Qur’an regarding the attributes of the believers:
_”إِنَّمَا الْمُؤْمِنُونَ الَّذِينَ إِذَا ذُكِرَ اللَّهُ وَجِلَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ وَإِذَا تُلِيَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ آيَاتُهُ زَادَتْهُمْ إِيمَانًا وَعَلَىٰ رَبِّهِمْ يَتَوَكَّلُونَ”._(٢)
_Those only are believers whose hearts become full of fear when Allah is mentioned, and when His communications are recited to them they increase them in faith, and in their Lord do they trust._
_”الَّذِينَ يُقِيمُونَ الصَّلَاةَ وَمِمَّا رَزَقْنَاهُمْ يُنفِقُونَ.”_(٣)
_Those who keep up prayer and spend (benevolently) out of what We have given them._
_”أُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ حَقًّا لَّهُمْ دَرَجَاتٌ عِندَ رَبِّهِمْ وَمَغْفِرَةٌ وَرِزْقٌ كَرِيمٌ”._(٤)
_These are the believers in truth; they shall have from their Lord exalted grades and forgiveness and an honorable sustenance._
*Suratu Al-Anfāl, verse 2-4.*
Allāh also says;
_”التَّائِبُونَ الْعَابِدُونَ الْحَامِدُونَ السَّائِحُونَ الرَّاكِعُونَ السَّاجِدُونَ الْآمِرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَالنَّاهُونَ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِ وَالْحَافِظُونَ لِحُدُودِ اللَّهِ وَبَشِّرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ.”_
_They who turn (to Allah), who serve (Him), who praise (Him), who fast, who bow down, who prostrate themselves, who enjoin what is good and forbid what is evil, and who keep the limits of Allah; and give good news to the believers._
*Suratu At-tawbah, verse 112.*
And He says in another verse;
_”قَدْ أَفْلَحَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ.”_
_”Indeed, successful are the believers.”_ To where Allah says;
_”أُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْوَارِثُونَ.”_
_These are they who are the heirs._
*Suratu Al-Mu’minūn, verse 1-10.*
And again, Allāh says;
_”وَعِبَادُ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الَّذِينَ يَمْشُونَ عَلَى الْأَرْضِ هَوْنًا وَإِذَا خَاطَبَهُمُ الْجَاهِلُونَ قَالُوا سَلَامًا”_
_”And the servants of the Beneficent Allah are those who walk on the earth in humbleness, and when the ignorant address them, they say: Peace.”_
*Suratu Al-Furqān, verse 63.*
Thus, whosoever his characters looks obscured to him – whether bad or good – then, then he should checkmate himself with the above verses, if he find all the attributes mentioned in the above verses in his characters, then it is a sign that he has good characters.
However, if the attributes mentioned in the above verses are absent completely in his behaviors, then it is a sign that he has bad characters.
But, if he has some of the attributes and lacks some of them, then, he should hasten to safeguard the ones he has and seek for the ones he lacks.
*25th Rabī’u Ath-thāni, 1438H.*
Allāhu A’alam! Bārakallāhu fīkum!
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