Remembrance 3 from Chapter 350
22. Mu‘ādh 
narrated: “I said: ‘Messenger of Allah, tell me of a deed which will make me enter Paradise and keep me far from Hell.’ He replied: ‘You have asked about a great matter, but it is easy for those for whom Allah 
has made it easy. Worship Allah and do not associate anything as a partner with Him, establish ṣalāh and pay zakāh, fast the month of Ramaḍān, and perform the pilgrimage to the House [of Allah].’ Then he said: ‘Shall I not show you the doors of good? Fasting is a shield; ṣadaqah extinguishes sin just as water extinguishes fire; and the ṣalāh of a man in the middle of the night.’ Then he recited ‘They withdraw their sides from beds. . .’ until he reached ‘. . .they do.’ [26].Then he said: ‘Shall I not inform you of the apex of the matter, its main pillar and its pinnacle?’ I said: ‘Yes, do, Messenger of Allah.’ He said: ‘The apex of the matter is Islam, its main pillar is ṣalāh and its pinnacle is jihād.’ Then he said: ‘Shall I inform you of the foundation of all of this?’ I said: ‘Yes, Messenger of Allah.’ He took hold of his tongue and said: ‘Restrain this.’ I asked: ‘Messenger of Allah, will we be taken to task for what we say?’ He said: ‘May your mother grieve for you! Does anything cast people into Hell-Fire on their faces—or on their nostrils—but the harvest of their tongues?’” [27].We relate this in at-Tirmidhī, and he says it is ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ. [In] dhirwat as-sanām, ‘pinnacle’ [dhirwah] is the highest part of [the sanām or camel’s hump] and it has a kasrah on the dhāl and a ḍammah. Milāk al-amr, ‘foundation’, is written with a kasrah on the mīm, and means ‘its purpose’.