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A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.

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Reward is attained in both this world and the Hereafter.

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There is no independent path for achieving a good reward in the Hereafter,

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and another separate path for the well-being of life in this world.

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Rather, there is only one path through which both this world and the Hereafter are set right.

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If a person deviates from this path, both their worldly life and their Hereafter are corrupted.

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This sole path is faith and God-consciousness (taqwa).

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It is belief in the Last Day and the realization of the divine methodology in worldly life.

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This world is the sowing ground for the Hereafter.

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There is no contradiction between cultivating worldly life in light of the methodology of Allah, the Almighty and Majestic,

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and [preparing for] the Last Day.

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For this world is a place of action, while the Hereafter is a place of reward and reckoning.

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When this truth becomes clear,

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the believer will be saved from the wretched dichotomy between this world and the Hereafter.

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This is what is witnessed among many people,

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which has only arisen from a corrupted perception of the comprehensive concept of worship in Islam.

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We have come to see those who withdraw from the world and abandon its cultivation through reform,

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leaving corruption to spread within it under the pretext of asceticism and devotion to the Hereafter,

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and the refinement and purification of the soul.

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This is met by another deviation,

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which is becoming preoccupied and engrossed in this world and its adornments,

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as if life in it were eternal,

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until this has led to the forgetting of the Hereafter,

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and heedlessness regarding it and the preparation for it.