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    Ikhlas and Taqwa Sincerity and Piety
    Ikhlas and Taqwa Sincerity and Piety
    Ikhlas and Taqwa Sincerity and Piety
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    Ikhlas and Taqwa Sincerity and Piety

    By Osman Nuri Topbas

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    The most important things that give one’s life a meaning are taqwâ (piety) and sincerity. Taqwâ is to curb one’s fleshly desires and to strengthen the spiritual potential through prayers to God and doing good deeds for humanity. Hence taqwâ is required in every field of life, in our belief, worship, in our dealings with others, even in our every breath.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherErkam Publications
    Release dateAug 18, 2010
    ISBN9781452378695
    Ikhlas and Taqwa Sincerity and Piety

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      Ikhlas and Taqwa Sincerity and Piety - Osman Nuri Topbas

      Ikhlas and Taqwa

      Sıncerıty and Pıety

      by

      Osman Nuri Topbas

      Published by Osman Nuri Topbas at Smashwords

      Copyright © 2010 by Osman Nuri Topbas

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner.

      Istanbul 1431 2010

      E-mail: info@worldpublishings.com

      Web site: http://www.islamicpublishing.net

      Contents

      Foreword

      The blessıng of a pure heart:

      Ikhlâs and Taqwâ-ı

      A life of trial

      A life of taqwâ

      A heart of great temperament

      Taqwâ consists of three stages

      Have taqwâ in every matter

      A guide for those with taqwâ

      Seek the means of approaching him

      In reverence to Allah

      The blessıng of a pure heart:

      Ikhlâs and Taqwâ-ıı

      The secret of salvation

      Taqwâ in faith

      Not to compromise or be inclinedtowards what is wrong

      Be with those who are truthful

      Like grasping an ember

      Taqwâ in worship, especially in prayer

      Taqwâ in fasting

      Taqwâ in giving charity

      Taqwâ during the hajj

      Three impediments of taqwâ

      Taqwâ in conduct

      State of altruism (îsar

      Taqwâ in Ihsân (kindness

      The blessıng of a pure heart:

      Ikhlâs and Taqwâ -ııı

      Taqwâ in contentment (rida)

      Goodness is with Allah alone

      Taqwâ in seeking forgiveness and repenting

      Encouraging what is good and forbidding what is evil

      Taqwâ when workinging the service of Islam (khidma

      Taqwâ in loyalty

      Taqwâ in love and affection

      The blessıng of a pure heart:

      Ikhlâs and Taqwâ -ıv

      Taqwâ in sincerity (Ikhlâs)

      Taqwâ in wealth, life and children

      Taqwâ in looking after trusts

      Taqwâ in responsibility

      The way out is taqwâ

      Superiority of taqwâ

      The indication of taqwâ67

      This is taqwâ

      The sun of taqwâ

      May Allah grant you taqwâ

      Trial of taqwâ

      The garment of taqwâ

      The provision of taqwâ

      FOREWORD

      Thanks and praises be to Allah Almighty, who has created the creation and made man to be the pinnacle of His divine art, who also revealed to mankind divine knowledge, sincerity (ikhlas) and taqwâ.

      Greetings and prayers be upon the prophet Muhammad (pbuh) , who was the cause of the creation, the light of the candle of love, the sun of guidance and star of gnosis, the highest example of sincerity and taqwâ.

      Human life is always spent in one way or another. The important thing is how it is spent, in awareness of Allah the almighty and being sincere to him or in ignorance without giving life any meaning.

      The most important things that give one’s life a meaning are taqwâ (piety) and sincerity. Taqwâ is to curb one’s fleshly desires and to strengthen the spiritual potential through prayers to God and doing good deeds for humanity. Hence taqwâ is required in every field of life, in our belief, worship, in our dealings with others, even in our every breath. To have taqwâ means to be a friend to Allah almighty, to possess a spiritually healthy heart in this world which can take lessons from the divine manifestations of power in the universe, and to have merit of entering paradise through divine grace.

      In other words, to have sincerity and taqwâ means to purify our inner world from all kinds of spiritual disease, enabling our hearts to take pleasure from deeds and prayers which are in accordance with the divine will. Such a state of heart is described in the following verse of the holy Quran: He indeed shall be successful who purifies himself, (Ala, 87:14)

      To have sincerity and taqwâ means to attain unity with Allah in the heart, which is to assume the divine characteristics of beauty (Jamal) like mercy, forgiveness, slowness in retribution and so on. This means to seek divine satisfaction in all our actions and in all breaths.

      Of course in order to attain such high standards one needs to struggle to transform ones heart. Allah almighty explains the difficulty of this spiritual battle by swearing by the seven wonders of creation, at the end of which He tells us that only those who purify their hearts will be saved:

      "By the Sun and his (glorious) splendor; By the Moon as she follows him; By the Day as it shows up (the Sun’s) glory; By the Night as it conceals it; By the heaven and Him Who made it, By the earth and Him Who extended it, By the soul and Him Who made it perfect, Then He inspired it to understand what is right and wrong for it; He will indeed be successful who purifies it (his inner world), And he will indeed fail who corrupts it. (Shams, 91:1-10)

      As these verses show, man has on the one hand his nafs, his egoistic and animal desires, and on the other hand he has the feeling of taqwâ that will protect him from his nafs. On the one hand, the nafs which desires to play in the mud, and on the other hand, the soul which desires to fly in the

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