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was once asked regarding someone who performs a good deed, and is consequently praised by people on account of it, to which he replied, 'That [praise] is the advance glad tidings for the believer.?

Prophet Muhammad al-Mustafa [sawa]

Sahih Muslim, v. 4, p. 2034, no. 166

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Question : #275

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Subject:	When does a boy become adult?
Question:	When does a boy become adult? In other words, when is he supposed to begin carrying out religious acts as obligatory duties?
Answer:	A boy reaches the age of bolugh (adulthood) at the completion of 15 lunar years except for when one of the signs of bolugh appears before that age.

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