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266 The Glad Tidings of the Messiah (pbuh)

Gospel

Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and
pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to
your brother: "Let me take the speck out of your eye," when all the
time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the
plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove
the speck from your brother's eye. (Matthew 7:3-5)
So when you, a mere man, pass judgment on them and yet do the
same things, do you think you will escape God's judgment?
(Romans 2:3)

TO SAY "ALLAH WILLING"

Never say about anything: "I am doing that tomorrow"
without adding "if Allah wills." Remember your Lord
when you forget, and say: "Hopefully my Lord will guide
me to something closer to right guidance than this." (Surat
al-Kahf, 23-24)

Gospel

Now listen, you who say: "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or
that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money."
Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is
your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then
vanishes. Instead, you ought to say: "If it is the Lord's will, we will
live and do this or that." (James 4:13-15)

TO EXCHANGE GREETINGS

... And when you enter houses, greet one another with a