الإخلاص

SINCERITY

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2– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Sincerity is the worship of those brought near
[to Allah].’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 667]

3– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Sincerity is the criterion for worship.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 859]

4– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Sincerity is the summit of faith.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 860]

5– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Salvation is found in sincerity.’
[Tanbih al-Khawatir, v. 2, p. 118]

6– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Blessed is he whose knowledge and practice, love and hate, acceptance and refusal, speech and silence, and words and actions are sincerely for the sake of Allah.’
[Tuhaf al-`Uqoul, no. 100]

7– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Perfecting an action is more difficult than
[performing] the action itself, and purifying an intention from corruption is tougher for the striving ones than engaging in lengthy jihad.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 77, p. 288, no. 1]

8– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Persevering with an action until its end is harder than
[performing] the action itself.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 16, no. 4]

9– It is narrated in al-Kafi that Allah – Blessed and most High – addressed Prophet Moses (AS) in intimate conversation saying, ‘O Moses, whatever is done for My sake, a little of it is a lot and whatever is done for the sake of others, a lot of it is little.’
[al-Kafi, v. 8, p. 46, no. 8]

10– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Purify your heart and few actions will suffice you.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 73, p. 175, no. 15]

11– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘The men of knowledge will all be ruined except those who acted
[upon their knowledge], and those who act will all be ruined except for the sincere ones from among them, and the sincere ones are significant indeed.’
[Tanbih al-Khawatir, v. 2, p. 118]

12– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said to Mufadhaal b. Salih, ‘Verily Allah has servants who sincerely engage in transaction with Him in secrecy, so Allah gives them from His pure reward and goodness, for they are the ones who will come on the Day of Resurrection with their book of deeds empty, and when they stand in front of Allah, their books will be filled with the secrets that they had with Him’.
[Mufadhal narrates], I asked, ‘O my master, why will their books be empty?’ The Imam replied, ‘Allah holds them in such high regard that He does not even want the guardian angels to be aware of what is between Him and them.’
[`Uddat al-Da`ai, p. 194]

13– The archangel Gabriel (AS), when he was asked by the Prophet (SAWA) about the meaning of sincerity, replied, ‘The sincere one is he who does ask the people anything until he himself finds it, and when he finds it he is pleased. Whenever he has a remainder of a thing, he gives it to others, because if a person does not ask anything from creation, he has established that his servitude is solely for Allah, Mighty and Exalted, and if he finds and he is pleased then he is pleased with Allah and Allah – Blessed and most High – is pleased with him, and if he gives for the sake of Allah then he has reached the station of reliance on his Lord, Mighty and Exalted.’
[Nur al-Thaqalayn, v. 3, p. 15, no. 50]

14– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘If you perform an action, do it sincerely for the sake of Allah because He only accepts from His servants those actions that have been performed sincerely.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 77, p. 103, no. 1]

15– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Allah – most High –has said, ‘I am the best partner, so whoever associates a partner with Me in his actions I will never accept them, except those actions that have been performed
[sincerely for Me].’
[Mustadrak al-Wasail, v. 1, p. 203, no. 1]

16– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Complete sincerity is abstaining from the prohibited things.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 44399]

17– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said. ‘Whoever sincerely says “There is no god but Allah” will enter Paradise and his sincerity should be such that his testimony of “There is no god but Allah” becomes a barrier for him against whatever Allah has forbidden.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 8, p. 359, no. 24]

18– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Verily for every essential truth is a reality and a servant has not reached the reality of sincerity until he dislikes to be praised
[by others] for any act that he does for the sake of Allah.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 72, p. 304, no. 51]

19– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Pure worship is that a man does not hope for anything except his Lord and does not fear anything except
[the outcome of] his sin.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 2128]

20– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘The pure action
[done out of sincerity], is that which the servant does not wish to be praised for by anyone except Allah – Mighty and Exalted.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 16, no. 4]

21– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The
[root] cause of sincerity is conviction.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 5538]

22– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The fruit of knowledge is sincerity of action.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 4642]

23– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Reduce your expectations and your actions will become sincere.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 6793]

24– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The root of sincerity is despairing of obtaining what is in the hands of men.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 3088]

25– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘No sooner does a servant spend his mornings in a state of sincere devotion for forty days than the springs of wisdom will flow from his heart onto his tongue.’
[`Uyoun Akhbar al-Ridha (AS), v. 2, p. 69, no. 321]

26–The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Allah said, ‘No sooner do I look into a servant’s heart and find that he has sincere love for My sole obedience and he seeks My pleasure than I take charge of his plans and affairs.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 85, p. 136, no. 16]

27– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The one who purifies his intention distances himself from base qualities.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 8447]

28– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Verily everything is humbled and awed before the believer’, and then he said, ‘If he is sincere for Allah, Allah will make everything fear him including the wild and poisonous animals of the land and the birds of the sky.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 70, p. 238, no. 21]