All prophets are brothers, with different mothers but one religion. I am close to Jesus, in this world and the Hereafter. Do not consider me better than Moses.
When the bier of anyone passes you, whether Jew, Christian or Muslim, rise to your feet.
Once Muhammad got up when a bier went by and he was told: “This is the bier of a Jew.” He responded: “So what, did it not have a soul?”

Travel

Travel is torment, interfering with sleeping, eating and drinking. So when you have concluded your business, hasten to your family.

Keeping Good Company

Beware of hanging around in the streets. The people said: “That’s the only place we have to sit and chat.” In that case, give the street its rights. They asked: “What are the rights of the street?” He said: “Those on it should lower their gaze, refrain from causing trouble to others, return people’s greetings, and enjoin good and forbid evil.”

Animals

Fear God in how you treat animals.

Suicide

Let none of you wish for death because of a loss or harm that has befallen you.

Muslim Sects / Spiritual Divisions

Sunnis and Shiites

About 87 percent of all Muslims (1.05 billion) are Sunnis — those who follow the sunnah (sayings and deeds) of the Prophet Muhammad.

The remaining 13 percent (170 million) are Shiites (also known as Shia or Shiat Ali, the party of Ali, the fourth caliph of Islam, whom they follow). Shiites constitute the religious majority in Iran, Iraq, Bahrain, Yemen and Azerbaijan, and they are the largest religious group in Lebanon.

Sufis

Sufis are Muslim mystics who practice Sufism. Unlike the division between the majority Sunnis and the minority Shiites, which is based on a dispute over who should have succeeded the Prophet Muhammad, the distinction between Sufis and non-Sufi Muslims is “a vertical division.” Sufis may be Sunnis or Shiites.

The word sufi comes from suf (wool). It refers to the coarse garments worn by early Muslims as protest against the silks and satins of the sultans and caliphs. The dissidents’ complaint was that Muslims were becoming too worldly and less spiritual. “Love the pitcher less and the water more,” they said. Develop your inner core to “experience God.”6

Going beyond the rituals of religion, these mystics try to achieve God consciousness through dhikr (remembrance) of God. They repeat some of Allah’s ninety-nine names or sing poetry to music or dance themselves into a trance, turning right to left or going around in circles, as do the famous Sufis known as the Whirling Dervishes.

Early Sufis clustered around masters and formed circles that developed into Sufi orders.

Muslims are of two minds about Sufis. That’s because some Sufis take liberties with, or profess no allegiance to, the basics of the faith. Others create a cult of sainthood, leading to a veneration of, and pilgrimages to, mausoleums of the saints. Yet others believe in magic and superstition. Such aberrations raise eyebrows.