Restraint And Patience In Islam

Etiquette and courtesy are not just Elizabethan or Victorian words, Islam orders observing good behaviors as an object of faith no less. The well-known hadith that hygiene is half the belief is a specific case in point, as certainly is the requirement of ablution before offering devotions.

The Ramazan fast itself is there to impart higher and finer human qualities like self-restraint and self-control in conduct, which leads to self-discipline and a healthier understanding of the ethics of profusion and scarcity, thus helping one become more sophisticated and thoughtful. It is an workout in abstinence the way Islam sees it as wanted, as opposed to self-denial practiced by people of other trusts where the idea is taken to an all-abiding rule. Self-denial during the fast from provisions like food and water and human requirements in the form of tolerances is kept time-bound and not protracted to a lifetime.

It thus describes moderation in human conduct as a testament of obedience to God’s will to gain merit in the hereafter, and the testing of one’s own endurance as a finer human attainment in this worldly life. It can be argued that endurance, when practiced under Allah’s command and grasped, could then be cultivated as part of one’s character traits fasting or no fasting.

Restraint and patience are two of the premium potentials that can be developed and applied equally to everyday circumstances, and especially when challenged with making critical choices.There would possibly be fewer influences and even less wars if these two characters were instructed as part of a self-improvement rule to handle annoyance. Patience is a keystone of better behaviors in social communication.

Cleanliness is additional integral part of better human behavior. Many Islamic injunctions advocate the contemporary ideas of physical and oral cleanliness. According to Abu Huraira, Allah’s Apostle (Peace Be upon Him) said, ‘If I had not originated it hard for my groups, I would have well-ordered them to clean their teeth with Msiwak beforehand every prayer’. Commands on the use of perfume or fragrance are also found in profusion in a culture and at a time in antiquity when these finer belongings in life were obtainable only to the well-to-do.

The importance on hygiene has three features, preservation of personal hygiene for one’s own happiness, meeting the fundamentals of graciousness, as opposed to being attacking to those around one, and setting the realistic up as an example of a cultured lot. This, while reserve in the dress code is highlighted duly; the command to the effect came at a time when entire peoples used to circumnavigate the Kaaba without clothes. Islam professed the pagan practice invasive to decent sensibilities and organized the faithful to uniform themselves humbly.

Among other societal commands in the Holy Quran, ones relating to observing behaviors while interrelating socially or with the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him), or entering houses of people or that of the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him), stand out.
Recurring to the emphasis placed on good behaviors in Surah Al-Hujurat, though some of the commands given are more precise to the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him), in their prolonged situation, they are also a contract of good behaviors for setting the rules of social communication.