Hazrat Abdullah bin Masoor narrates that the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم recited this blessed verse { فمَنْ یُرِدِ اللَّہُ أَنْ یَہْدِیَہُ یَشْرَحْ صَدْرَہُ لِلإِسْلاَمِ }. The people asked, "O Messenger of Allah! What is its explanation?" He replied, "It is a light; when it enters the heart, the heart opens up." He was asked, "Is there any sign by which it can be recognized?" He replied, "Its sign is attention towards the Hereafter, aversion to the house of deception, and preparation for death before death."

Hazrat Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) once said to me, "Look, who appears to you as the most distinguished person in the mosque?" I looked carefully and saw that there was a man in the mosque who was wearing fine clothes. I said, "It is he." Then he asked, "Who appears to you as the most inferior person in the mosque?" I looked and saw that there was a man whose body was covered with worn-out clothes. I said, "It is he." The Prophet said, "If the likes of the first one were to fill the whole earth, this second one is still better than all of them."

It is narrated in the same way from another narrator.

It is narrated from Hazrat Dhahhak bin Muzahim that he says: A person came to the service of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. He said, "O Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him! Who is the greatest ascetic among the people in matters of the world?" The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "The one who does not forget graves and decay, who leaves the best of the adornments of the world, who prefers the everlasting over the perishable, who does not count tomorrow as part of his days (of life), and who considers himself among the dead."

It is narrated from Hazrat Amr bin Maymoon that the Noble Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said to a man: "Consider five things as a blessing before five things: your life before your death, your free time before your preoccupation, your wealth before your poverty, your youth before your old age, and your health before your illness. (Consider them a blessing)"

It is narrated from Hazrat Abdullah bin Masood (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Have modesty before Allah as is His due." Ibn Masood (may Allah be pleased with him) said: We said, "O Messenger of Allah! We do have modesty." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "This is not (true) modesty. Rather, whoever has modesty before Allah as is His due, he should protect his head and what it contains, and he should protect his stomach and what it contains, and he should remember death and decaying (in the grave), and whoever desires the Hereafter, he leaves the adornment of the world. So whoever does these things, indeed he has fulfilled the right of modesty before Allah."

It is narrated from Hazrat Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) had a she-camel which was called ‘Adhba’. No one could surpass this she-camel. Then a Bedouin came riding a young camel and surpassed this she-camel. This was very hard on the Muslims. They said,“O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! ‘Adhba’ has been surpassed.”The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:“Indeed, it is incumbent upon Allah that whatever rises high in this world, Allah will also bring it down.”

Hazrat Simak narrates about Hazrat Nu'man bin Bashir (may Allah be pleased with him). He says: I heard him say: Are you not among your desired foods and drinks? Whereas I saw your Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in such a state that he did not even have enough inferior and dry dates by which he could fill his stomach.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Burdah that he says: I went to the service of Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her), and she showed me a thick lower garment. This lower garment was made from the clothes that are made in Yemen. She took out one of those sheets which you call a patched sheet. Then she made me swear an oath and said: The blessed soul of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was taken in these two garments.

It is narrated from a man of the tribe of Banu Salim... or Fahm... that a gift was brought to the Noble Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). So he looked around but did not find anything in which he could place it, so he (peace be upon him) said: "Place it on the ground (itself). So this is also a servant who eats like other servants eat. And he drinks just as other servants drink. And if the weight of the world with Allah were even equal to the wing of a mosquito, no disbeliever would be able to drink even a sip of water from this world."