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Etiquettes of the Host
1. When the guest arrives (and will be staying over), show him the toilet. In doing so, it will be easy for the guest to relieve himself if there is a need, without him needing to search for the host and enquire regarding the toilet.
2. If the guest arrives and is hungry, serve him whatever food is available or can be prepared quickly. Do not make the guest wait in hunger so that a lavish meal can be prepared.
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Unappetizing Answers
The evil, reprehensible quality of miserliness stems from excessive love for wealth. When a person is overpowered by miserliness, he will behave in the most foolish manner. Though he may have much wealth, due to this terrible quality he will even be miserly towards his own near and dear ones. Below are two incidents of misers:
There was once an extremely miserly man who instructed his children to buy him some meat. After they bought and prepared the meat, he …
Raise not the Niqaab
(Hafsah bintu Seereen [rahimahallah] – Part Two)
‘Aasim Al-Ahwal (rahimahullah), a renowned narrator of hadeeth, mentions the following:
Whenever we would go to Hafsah bintu Seereen (rahimahallah) (to learn hadeeth), she would use her jilbaab to cover her face as a niqaab. We once said to her, “May Allah Ta‘ala have mercy on you! Allah Ta‘ala has mentioned in the Quraan Majeed:
وَالْقَوَاعِدُ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ اللَّاتِي لَا يَرْجُونَ نِكَاحًا فَلَيْسَ …
