From the Fear of Allah: Sincerity to Allah
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And among His most important commands,Rather, it is His most important command: is sincerity to Allah (Mighty and Majestic). Everything you do to draw near to your Lord must be pure for Allah. If you associate with Allah anyone else in it, Allah will reject it;Because Allah says in the Qudsi Hadith: (I am the most independent of partners from association with Me. Whoever does a deed in which he associates with Me anyone else, I leave him and his association) , [Surah Az-Zumar: 7] .
So be sincere to Allah (Mighty and Majestic) in your ritual purity, your prayer, your alms, your fasting, your pilgrimage, your dutifulness to your parents, your maintaining of family ties, and your kindness to your neighbors.
Be sincere to Allah the Exalted in seeking knowledge; do not seek by it prestige, nor leadership, nor do you want to compete with scholars by it, or argue with the foolish by it. Rather, you want by it to revive the Shari'ah of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), to remove ignorance from the servants of Allah and from yourself, and to defend the Shari'ah of Allah; because the Shari'ah of Allah the Exalted is targeted; from the time it emerged in Makkah until our day, it has been targeted,As Allah the Exalted said: [Surah Al-Furqan: 31] , so every prophet has an enemy, and every follower of a prophet has enemies, and it must be so.
So this is the Sunnah of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and the path is not paved with roses and flowers, but the path is difficult and arduous, and Allah (Mighty and Majestic) must, by His wisdom, place an opposite to the truth so that the truth is known and appears clear, prevailing over falsehood, and so that Allah knows the striving ones among us and the patient ones.
So sincerity in seeking knowledge is necessary, so be sincere to Allah (Mighty and Majestic) in obeying the command of Allah by following the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him),And the meaning is: that you are sincere in following the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him and his family); by not adding to his Shari'ah what is not from it, and not subtracting from his Shari'ah what is from it. The one who subtracts from the Shari'ah is deficient, and may be an open sinner, and the one who adds is an innovator; so the religion is complete and does not need innovation.
So sincerity in following the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) is necessary, and by that we realize the testimony that there is no god but Allah, and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.
If you disbelieve - indeed, Allah is Free from need of you. And He does not approve for His servants disbelief. And if you are grateful, He approves it for you
إِنْ تَكْفُرُوا فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ غَنِيٌّ عَنْكُمْ وَلا يَرْضَى لِعِبَادِهِ الْكُفْرَ وَإِنْ تَشْكُرُوا يَرْضَهُ لَكُمْSo be sincere to Allah (Mighty and Majestic) in your ritual purity, your prayer, your alms, your fasting, your pilgrimage, your dutifulness to your parents, your maintaining of family ties, and your kindness to your neighbors.
Be sincere to Allah the Exalted in seeking knowledge; do not seek by it prestige, nor leadership, nor do you want to compete with scholars by it, or argue with the foolish by it. Rather, you want by it to revive the Shari'ah of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), to remove ignorance from the servants of Allah and from yourself, and to defend the Shari'ah of Allah; because the Shari'ah of Allah the Exalted is targeted; from the time it emerged in Makkah until our day, it has been targeted,As Allah the Exalted said:
And thus have We made for every prophet an enemy from among the criminals
وَكَذَلِكَ جَعَلْنَا لِكُلِّ نَبِيٍّ عَدُوّاً مِنَ الْمُجْرِمِينَSo this is the Sunnah of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and the path is not paved with roses and flowers, but the path is difficult and arduous, and Allah (Mighty and Majestic) must, by His wisdom, place an opposite to the truth so that the truth is known and appears clear, prevailing over falsehood, and so that Allah knows the striving ones among us and the patient ones.
So sincerity in seeking knowledge is necessary, so be sincere to Allah (Mighty and Majestic) in obeying the command of Allah by following the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him),And the meaning is: that you are sincere in following the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him and his family); by not adding to his Shari'ah what is not from it, and not subtracting from his Shari'ah what is from it. The one who subtracts from the Shari'ah is deficient, and may be an open sinner, and the one who adds is an innovator; so the religion is complete and does not need innovation.
So sincerity in following the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) is necessary, and by that we realize the testimony that there is no god but Allah, and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.