40 Acts of Paradise
‘Abdallah Bin ‘Amr Bin ‘Āṣ said that he heard the Messenger of God (God bless him and give him peace) say, “There are forty acts, the best of which is giving food, if any are done seeking their reward and believing in their promise, God will grant them Paradise by this act.” (Bukhari).
Shaykh ‘Abdullah Bin Siddīq al-Ghumārī (d. 1993) wrote a small book enumerating these forty acts and finding all the supporting hadith for them. I took the liberty of distilling this book in the following list, finding the appropriate modern English equivalent of the Prophetic expressions so as to make these acts easy to do and incorporate in our day-to-day life. I also recorded short videos explaining them all for my local mosque. You can find the playlist to these videos here.
The 40 Acts of Paradise:
Feeding people in need and without remunerationRemoving a harmful object from the roadFeeding and watering animalsVisiting the sickBefriending and visiting someone only for the sake of GodBelief in God and the Final HourGiving when you have littleEnjoying the good and forbidding the evilHelping those with disabilitiesHeling the misfortunateReturning a salam greetingResponding with blessings to the one who sneezesResponding to an invitationFollowing a funeral processionBeginning a salam greetingGiving sound adviceRemoving harm from the mosqueSmiling in the face of your brother/sisterGuiding someone who is lostHelping someone with poor eyesightForbidding the evilWatering your brother’s/sister’s water bucketHelping someone who is hard of hearingGuiding the blindHelping someone who has lost somethingHelping someone who is weakHelping someone with their means of transportationReconciling between two people in conflictSpeaking a good wordHelping someone who does not know how to communicate or does not know a particular languageGiving someone water who is thirstyHelping someone draw water from a well with a short rope, while yours is long enoughDonating shoe or sandal laces to someone in need of themComforting someone who is lonelyFlexibility in buying and sellingFlexibility in matters of adjudicating casesBeing patient with one who is short on repaying a debtBeing flexible when one has the majority of a debt, but missing only a littleConcealing the mistakes of a believerConsoling a believer’s loss
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