Sayings of the Prophet

• Widows A giver of maintenance to widows and the poor, is lke a bestower in the way of God, an utterer of prayers all the night, and a keeper of constant fast.
  I and a woman whose color and cheeks shall have become black from toiling in the sun shall be near to one another in the next world as my two fingers; and that is a handsome widow, whose color and cheeks shall have become black in bringing up her family.
  
  
  
• Wives Admonish your wives with kindness.
  A Muslim must not hate his wife; and if he be displeased with one bad quality in her, then let him be pleased with another that is good.
  Do you beat your own wife as you would a slave? That must you not do.
  I (Muaviyah b. Haidah) said, "O Apostle of God! What is my duty to my wife?" He said, "That you give her to eat as you eat yourself, and clothe her as you clothe yourself; and do not slap her in the face nor abuse her, nor separate yourself from her in displeasure.
  Give your wife good counsel; and if she has goodness in her, she will soon take it, and leave off idle talking; and do not beat your noble wife like a slave.
  Muhammad said, "Beat not your wives." Then Omar came to the Rasul (Muhammad) and said, "Wives have got the upper hand from hearing this."
  He is the most perfect Muslim whose disposition is best; and the best of you are they who behave best to their wives.
  A virtuous wife is a man's best treasure.
  
  
• Women Women are the twin halves of men.
  The world and all things in it are valuable; but the most valuable thing in the world is a virtuous woman.
  The best women are the virtuous; they are the most affectionate to infants, and the most careful of their husband's property.
  When a woman performeth the five times of prayer, and fasteth the month of Ramadan, and is chaste, and is not disobedient to her husband, then tell her to enter Paradise by whichever door she liketh.
  Verily a great number of women are assembled near my family, complaining of their hubands; and those men who ill-treat their wives do not behave well. He is not of my way who teacheth a woman to stray.
  Asma, daughter of Yazid, said, "Victuals were brought to Muhammad, and he put them before some of us women who were present, and said, 'Eat ye.' But notwithstanding we were hungry we said, 'We have no inclination.' Muhammad said, 'O woman! Do not mix hunger with lies.'"
  Whoever doeth good to girls, it will be a curtain to him from hell-fire.
  Whoever befriendeth two girls till they come of age, will be in the next world along with me, like my two fingers joining each other.
  Whoever befriendeth three daughters, or three sisters, and teacheth them manners, and is affectionate to them, till they come of age, may God apportion Paradise for him.
  Whoever hath a daughter, and doth not bury her alive or scold her, or prefer his male children to her, may God bring him into Paradise.
  Shall I not point out to you the best of virtues? It is your doing good to your daughter when she is returned to you having been divorced by her husband.
  God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts.
  The rights of women are sacred. See that women are maintained in the rights assigned to them.
  Do not prevent your women from coming to the mosque.
  
  
• World The love of the world is the root of all evil.
  This world is a prison for the Faithful, but a Paradise for unbelievers.
  The world is a magician greater than Harut and Marut, and you should avoid it.
  The world is sweet in the heart, and green to the eye; and verily God hath brought you, after those that went before you: then look to your actions, and abstain from the world and its wickedness.
  The world is as a prison and as a famine to Muslims; and when they leave it you may say they leave famine and a prison.
  Be in the world like a traveller, or like a passer on, and reckon yourself as of the dead.
  Cursed is this world and cursed is all that is in this world, except the rememberance of God and that which aideth thereto.