Part of Concepts of Ahl as-Sunnah (series completed)
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Summary of Sunni concepts | Concept (555) | Sincerity
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A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.
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Sincerity (al-ikhlas).
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The letters kha, lam, and sad.
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The root kh-l-s.
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A single linguistic root.
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It denotes purification, refinement, and clarification.
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Sincerity (ikhlas) and truthfulness (sidq).
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Are close to one another in meaning.
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However, truthfulness pertains to both words and deeds.
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Whereas sincerity is specific to the action of the heart.
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Furthermore, the opposite of truthfulness is lying.
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And the opposite of sincerity is showing off (riya').
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Thus, a lack of truthfulness in worship or action.
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Means that one is lying within them.
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This occurs when the intention for the sake of Allah is absent in them.
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And that is hypocrisy (nifaq).
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Whereas a lack of sincerity in worship or action.
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Means the failure to single out Allah alone in one's intention and focus.
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For the one who is insincere intends Allah the Exalted by his deed.
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But he also intends something else alongside Him.
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Thus, his deed is not purely for Allah the Exalted.
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And that is showing off and associating partners with Allah (shirk).
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Therefore, the one who is untruthful in worship or action is a hypocrite.
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And the one who is insincere in them is a show-off who associates partners with Allah.
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This is why there is much discussion of truthfulness in the surahs that address hypocrisy and its people.
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Such as the surahs of al-Tawbah, al-Ahzab, and al-Munafiqun.
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While the discussion of sincerity is found in the surahs that address polytheism and its people.
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Such as the surahs of al-Zumar, Ghafir, and al-Bayyinah.
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Allah has commanded us to have sincerity in more than one verse of the Qur'an.
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He, the Exalted, said:
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“Say (O Muhammad): Lo! I am commanded to worship Allah, making religion pure for Him (only).” (39:11)
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And He said:
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“And they are ordered naught else than to serve Allah, keeping religion pure for Him, as men by nature upright, and to establish worship and to pay the poor-due. That is true religion.” (98:5)
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He warned us of the consequence of polytheism, which is the opposite of sincerity.
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He, the Exalted, said:
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“And verily it hath been revealed unto thee as unto those before thee (saying): If thou ascribe a partner to Allah thy work will fail and thou indeed wilt be among the losers.” (39:65)
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"If you should associate [anything] with Allah, your work would surely become worthless, and you would surely be among the losers."
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In a hadith qudsi, Allah the Exalted says:
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"I am the most self-sufficient of partners, having no need for any association.
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Whoever performs a deed in which he associates someone else with Me,
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I abandon him and his association."
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Narrated by Muslim.
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For polytheism invalidates a deed and renders it worthless.
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Sincerity in a deed is like the soul to the body.
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The difference between a deed performed with sincerity and one without it.
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Is like the difference between a living human being and a motionless statue.