What is the minimum amount of worship that satisfies the Creator?
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Question:
The questioner says: What is the minimum amount of worship without which the created being does not fulfill the purpose of the Creator in His saying, the Exalted: [Surat al-Dhariyat: 56]?
Answer:
The minimum is performing the obligatory acts and avoiding the forbidden ones. If one performs the obligatory acts and avoids the forbidden ones, he owes nothing, and he is called a person of moderation, and he is among the righteous. If he adds to that by performing the recommended acts and staying away from the disliked ones, he becomes among those who race ahead and are brought near, becoming part of the highest tier.
And the classes are three:
The class of the sinners: they are those who wrong themselves.
And the class of the moderate righteous: they are those who performed the obligatory acts and avoided the forbidden ones only.
The third tier is the highest tier, which is the tier of those who race ahead and are brought near, namely the messengers and their followers: those who hastened to do good, so they performed the obligatory acts and competed in various types of good, and they avoided the forbidden ones and stayed away from the disliked and doubtful matters. These are the people of the highest tier.
The questioner says: What is the minimum amount of worship without which the created being does not fulfill the purpose of the Creator in His saying, the Exalted:
And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me.
وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنْسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونِAnswer:
The minimum is performing the obligatory acts and avoiding the forbidden ones. If one performs the obligatory acts and avoids the forbidden ones, he owes nothing, and he is called a person of moderation, and he is among the righteous. If he adds to that by performing the recommended acts and staying away from the disliked ones, he becomes among those who race ahead and are brought near, becoming part of the highest tier.
And the classes are three:
The class of the sinners: they are those who wrong themselves.
And the class of the moderate righteous: they are those who performed the obligatory acts and avoided the forbidden ones only.
The third tier is the highest tier, which is the tier of those who race ahead and are brought near, namely the messengers and their followers: those who hastened to do good, so they performed the obligatory acts and competed in various types of good, and they avoided the forbidden ones and stayed away from the disliked and doubtful matters. These are the people of the highest tier.
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