O Messenger of Allah, tell me of a deed which
will take me into Paradise and will keep me
away from the Hell-fire. He said: You have
asked me about a great matter, yet it is,
indeed, an easy matter for him to whom Allah
Almighty makes it easy. (It is ) that you
worship Allah without associating anything
with Him, that you perform the prayers, that
you pay the zakat, that you fast during
Ramadan, and that you make the pilgrimage
to the House. Then he said: Shall I not guide
you to the gates of goodness? Fasting is a
shield; charity extinguishes sin as water
extinguishes fire; and a man´s prayer in the
middle of the night. Then he recited: Who
forsake their beds to cry unto their Lord in
fear and hope, and spend of that We have
bestowed on them. No soul knoweth what is
kept hid for them of joy, as a reward for what
they used to do. [Qu´ran, Surah al-Sajdah
(32): Ayah 16-17] Then he said: Shall I not
also tell you of the peak of the matter, its
pillar, and its topmost part? I said: Yes, O
Messenger of Allah. He said: The peak of the
matter is Islam (submission to Allah), the
pillar is prayer; and its topmost part is jihad.
Then he said: And shall I not tell you of the
controlling of all that ? I said: Yes, O
Messenger of Allah. So he took hold of his
tongue and said: Restrain this. I said: O
Prophet of Allah, will we be held accountable
for what we say? He said: May your mother be
bereft of you! Is there anything that topples
people on their faces (or he said, on their
noses) into the Hell-fire other than the jests of
their tongues?
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