which I, in turn, advise you to take on:
He has commanded me to be sincere,
openly and in secret,
openly and in secret,
To be fair when calm or angry,
To be thrifty in poverty or good fortune,
To forgive someone who has wronged me,
To give to the one who has taken from me,
To build relations with whoever has severed them with me,
To let silence be my meditation,
To let speech be my prayer,
And to let what I observe bring a lesson to me.
--Muhammad (Hadith)
To be thrifty in poverty or good fortune,
To forgive someone who has wronged me,
To give to the one who has taken from me,
To build relations with whoever has severed them with me,
To let silence be my meditation,
To let speech be my prayer,
And to let what I observe bring a lesson to me.