GOD

God’s kindness towards His creatures is more than a mother’s towards her babe.

Truly, God is mild, and is fond of mildness, and He gives to the mild what he does not give to the harsh.

Truly God instructs me to be humble and lowly and not proud, and no one should oppress others.

One who humbles himself for the sake of God, God will exalt; such a person is small in their own mind, and great in the eyes of the people. And one who is proud and haughty, God will render that one contemptible, and such a person is small in the eyes of the people and great in his own mind, so that he or she becomes more contemptible to them than a dog or a swine.

God is gentle and loves gentleness.

God is a unity, and likes unity.

We were with the Prophet on a journey, and some men stood up repeating aloud, ‘God is most great;’ and the Prophet said, ‘O men, be easy on yourselves and do not distress yourselves by raising your voices; truly, you do not call to one deaf or absent, but truly to one who hears and sees; and He is with you; and He to whom you pray is nearer to you than the neck of your camel.

The most beloved in the sight of God, on the day of resurrection, and the nearest to Him, in regard to position, shall be the just leader; and the most hateful of men in the sight of God on the day of resurrection, and the farthest removed form Him, shall be the tyrannical leader.