Al-Ikhlāṣ

24 passages reference this surah

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Book 37: The Book of Intention, Sincerity, and Truthfulness

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din

1. "Al-Sousi said: "Sincerity is the absence of seeing sincerity, for anyone who witnesses sincerity in their sincerity needs their sincerity to be sincere. This points to purifying the act from self-admiration, as attention to sincerity itself is vanity and a flaw."

   Source in The Book of Intention, Sincerity, and Truthfulness →

2. "Some said, "Sincerity of an hour is salvation for eternity, but sincerity is rare," and it is said, "Knowledge is the seed, action is the planting, and its water is sincerity. Some said, "When Allah dislikes a servant, He gives him three things and withholds three: He grants him the company of the righteous,"

   Source in The Book of Intention, Sincerity, and Truthfulness →

3. "Sincerity in monotheism opposes association in divinity. Association can be hidden or apparent, and the same applies to sincerity. Sincerity and its opposite are matters of the heart, and it concerns intentions and aims."

   Source in The Book of Intention, Sincerity, and Truthfulness →

al-Fawāʾid — Points of Benefit, Volume Two

Ibn al-Qayyim · Timeless Classics

1. "Yet there is the man whose Tawhid is so great and vast that many of those traces are swallowed up in it and transformed within it, as with abundant water into which the slightest impurity or filth is mixed. Then the man of lesser Tawhid is deceived by his example, and mixes his own feeble Tawhid with what the man of great and abundant Tawhid mixed with his; so its effect appears in him as it never appeared in that abundant Tawhid."

   Source in al-Fawāʾid II →

2. "Sincerity and Tawhid are a tree in the heart: its branches are deeds, and its fruit is a goodly life in this world and abiding bliss in the Hereafter. And just as the fruits of Paradise are neither cut off nor withheld, so too is the fruit of Tawhid and sincerity in this world. Idolatry, falsehood, and ostentation are a tree in the heart whose fruit in this world is fear, anxiety, grief, constriction of the breast, and darkness of the heart,"

   Source in al-Fawāʾid II →

3. "So the shrewd man covers, with sound resolve, lofty aspiration, singleness of purpose and sincerity of intention, together with little work, many times over many times over the distance covered by the empty-handed man with all his heavy toil and gruelling travel. For resolve and love make hardship melt away and render the journey sweet. Advancing and outstripping others toward God, glory be to Him, comes about only through aspirations, sincerity of desire and resolve."

   Source in al-Fawāʾid II →

Volume One

Ibn al-Qayyim · Madārij al-Sālikīn

1. "Thus, one does not perceive the differentiation within the unity. This includes the differentiation of creation and command within the unity of lordship, the differentiation of the requirements of divinity within the unity of lordship, the differentiation of religious will within the unity of universal will, and the differentiation of what He loves and is pleased with within the unity of what He has decreed and ordained."

   Source in Volume One →

2. "Thus, there is no other, and absolute unity negates obedience and disobedience. The ascent from the unity of action to the unity of existence, according to his claim, removes the illusion of division into obedience and disobedience, just as the ascent from the differentiation of command to the unity of judgment removes the establishment of disobedience."

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3. "If the recommended act is inferior and less beneficial, and unity is better, they occupy themselves with unity instead. This is the highest category, and the true person is the one who can return from dispersion to unity and from unity to dispersion, strengthening each with the other, without nullifying the struggle between them."

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Volume Two

Ibn al-Qayyim · Madārij al-Sālikīn

1. "sincerity. It is as if he said: the state of sincerity is not attained except after knowing the science of sincerity. Then he defined the reality of sincerity, saying that sincerity does not become upright—in the knowledge of the people of"

   Source in Volume Two →

2. "and unity without distinction, which is the unity of the people of heresy and atheism. Thus, people are of three types: one with distinction without unity, who is blameworthy, deficient, and forsaken; one with unity without distinction,"

   Source in Volume Two →

3. "then their sincerity needs further sincerity. The deficiency of every sincere person in their sincerity is to the extent that they see their own sincerity. When they no longer see it, they become truly sincere."

   Source in Volume Two →

Volume Three

Ibn al-Qayyim · Madārij al-Sālikīn

1. "Observing unity is the ultimate goal for this group. We do not deny this, but what kind of unity is it? Is it the unity of existence, as the unifiers claim? Or the unity of witnessing, as the one who annihilates in the oneness of lordship claims?"

   Source in Volume Three →

2. "Chapter: If you understand these premises, the correct unity—upon which the people of uprightness stand—is the unity of Lordship and the unity of Divinity. The one who possesses this unity perceives the sustaining power of the Lord above His"

   Source in Volume Three →

3. "and it is the unity of actions in attributes, the unity of attributes in essence, and the unity of names in essence, attributes, and actions. Observing this unity is the ultimate in knowledge and its highest types."

   Source in Volume Three →

The Garden of the Gnostics

Imam al-Nawawī · Timeless Classics

1. "noted that when people witness sincerity in their sincerity, it requires a new level of sincerity. Dhu al-Nun, may God be pleased with him, identified three signs of sincerity, the equality of praise and blame from common people,"

   Source in The Garden of the Gnostics →

2. "Yusuf ibn al-Husayn, may God have mercy on him, said, the rarest thing in the world is sincerity. Abu Uthman al-Maghribi, may God have mercy on him, explained that the sincerity of common people involves no share for the self,"

   Source in The Garden of the Gnostics →

al-Fawāʾid — Points of Benefit, Volume One

Ibn al-Qayyim · Timeless Classics

1. "this world repelled by anything like Tawhid. That is why the supplication for distress is a declaration of Tawhid, and why the prayer of the Man of the Whale — with which no distressed soul has ever prayed but that God relieved his distress — is Tawhid itself."

   Source in al-Fawāʾid →

2. "Justice, then, is His requiting sin with punishment and blame, whether in this world or the next. These people found it hard to reconcile justice with divine determining, and so they claimed that whoever affirms determining cannot uphold justice, and whoever upholds justice cannot affirm determining — just as they found it hard to reconcile Tawhid with the affirmation of the divine attributes, and so claimed they could establish Tawhid only by denying the attributes."

   Source in al-Fawāʾid →

Book 32: Patience and Gratitude

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din

1. "One must be patient in obedience at three stages. The first stage is before the act of worship. This involves purifying one's intention, maintaining sincerity, refraining from hypocrisy, and avoiding the incitements of afflictions, while firmly intending sincerity and fidelity."

   Source in Patience & Gratitude →

Book 28: Condemnation of Status and Showing Off

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din

1. "They strive to conceal their righteous deeds more diligently than others hide their sins, hoping for purity in their actions. They trust that Allah will reward them openly on the Day of Judgment for their sincerity, knowing that only sincerity is accepted on that Day."

   Source in Status & Showing Off →

The Story of Musa

Ibn Kathir · Stories of the Prophets

1. "care for him for you and are sincerely caring for him? They took her and asked, how do you know of their sincerity towards him? Do you know him? They doubted this, which is part of the trials, O Ibn Jubair. She replied, their sincerity and kindness to him is due"

   Source in The Story of Musa →

Volume 1 — From Creation to Mūsā

Ibn Kathir · Al-Bidāya wal-Nihāya

1. "Suspicious of her knowledge, they asked how she knew of their sincerity. She explained, their sincerity comes from their tenderness and their longing for the king's favor. They sent her to fetch the household and she hurried to her"

   Source in From Creation to Mūsā →

Futūḥ al-Ghayb — Revelations of the Unseen

Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Timeless Classics

1. "Adhere to the piety of God Almighty, fear none but God, hope for none but God, and entrust all needs to God Almighty. Rely only on Him, seek everything from Him, and trust no one but God. Tawhid, Tawhid, the consensus of all."

   Source in Futūḥ al-Ghayb →