Be not extravagant in praising me, as the Christians are in praising Jesus, Mary’s Son, by calling him God, and the Son of God; I am only the Lord’s servant; then call me the servant of God, and His messenger.


It was asked, “O Messenger of God, what relation is most worthy of doing good to?” He said, “Your mother,” this he repeated thrice: “and after her your father, and after him your other relations by propinquity.”


God’s pleasure is in a father’s pleasure, and God’s displeasure is a father’s displeasure.


Verily one of you is a mirror to his brother: Then if he see a vice in his brother he must tell him to get rid of it.