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with which he rinsed his mouth and then he threw it out into the well. We stayed for a short while and then drew water from
the well and quenched our thirst, and even our riding animals drank water to their satisfaction.
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith
Hadith 5.503 Narrated by
Kab bin Ujra
The Prophet came to me at the time of Al-Hudaibiya Pledge while lice were falling on my face. He said, "Are the lice of your
head troubling you?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Shave your head and fast for three days, or feed six poor persons, or slaughter a
sheep as sacrifice." (The sub-narrator, Aiyub said, "I do not know with which of these three options he started.")
HUMILITY:
6;43 - When the suffering reached them from Us why then did they not learn humility? On the
contrary their hearts became hardened and Satan made their (sinful) acts seem alluring to
them. 861
861 Sorrow and suffering may (if we take them rightly) turn out to be the best gifts of God to us. According to the Psalms
(xciv. 12), "Blessed is the man whom Thou chastenest, O Lord!" Through suffering we learn humility, the antidote to
many vices and the fountain of many virtues. But if we take them the wrong way, we grumble and complain: we
become faint-hearted; and Satan gets his oppurtunity to exploit us by putting forward the alluring pleasures of his
Vanity Fair. (6.43)
7:55 - Call on your Lord with humility and in private: for Allah loveth not those who trespass beyond
bounds. 1033
1033 In prayer, we must avoid any arrogance or show or loudness, or vanity of requests or words. If excess is condemned
in all things, it is specially worthy of condemnation when we go humbly before Our Lord,-we poor creatures before the
Omnipotent Who knoweth all. (7.55)
1034 The man who prays with humility and earnestness finds the ground prepared by Allah for his spiritual advancement.
It is all set in order, and cleared of weeds. He does not, like the wicked, upset that order, to introduce evil or mischief
into it. (7.56)
25:63- And the servants of (Allah) Most Gracious are those who walk on the earth in humility and
when the ignorant address them they say "Peace!" 3123
3123 Ignorant: in a moral sense. Address: in the aggressive sense. Their humility is shown in two ways: (1) to those in real
search of knowledge, they give such knowledge as they have and as the recipients can assimilate; (2) to those who
merely dispute, they do not speak harshly, but say "Peace!", as much as to say, "May it be well with you, may you
repent and be better"; or "May Allah give me peace from such wrangling"; or "Peace, and Good-bye; let me leave
you!" (25.63)
6:42 - Before thee We sent (Apostles) to many nations and We afflicted the nations with suffering
and adversity that they might learn humility.
7:94 - Whenever We sent a prophet to a town We took up its people in suffering and adversity in
order that they might learn humility. 1065
1065 Man was originally created pure. The need of a prophet arises when there is some corruption and iniquity, which he is
sent to combat. His coming means much trial and suffering, especially to those who join him in his protest against
wrong. Even so peaceful a prophet as Jesus said; "I came not to send peace but a sword" (Matt. x. 34). But it is all in
Allah's Plan, for we must learn humility if we would be worthy of Him. (7.94)
17:24 - And out of kindness lower to them the wing of humility and say: "My Lord! bestow on them
Thy Mercy even as they cherished me in childhood." 22052206
2205 Cf. xv. 88 and n. 2011. The metaphor is that of a high-flying bird which lowers her wing out of tenderness to her
offspring. There is a double aptness. (1) When the parent was strong and the child was helpless, parental affection
was showered on the child: when the child grows up and is strong, and the parent is helpless, can he do less than
bestow similar tender care on the parent? (2) But more: he must approach the matter with gentle humility: for does not
parental love, remind him of the great love with which Allah cherishes His creatures? There is something here more
than simple human gratitude; it goes up into the highest spiritual region. (17.24)
2206 Note that we are asked to honour our father and mother, not "that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord
thy God giveth thee" (Exod. xx. 12), but upon much higher and more universal grounds, such as befit a perfected
revelation. In the first place, not merely respect, but cherishing kindness, and humility to parents, are commanded. In
the second place, this command is bracketed with the command to worship the One True GodParental love should be
to us a type of divine love: nothing that we can do can ever really compensate for that which we have received. In the
third place (see next verse) our spiritual advancement is tested by this: we cannot expect Allah's forgiveness if we are
rude or unkind to those who unselfishly brought us up. (17.24)
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