How Might One Obtain Ikhlaas
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Title: How Might One Obtain Ikhlaas
Created on: Wed Dec 26 14:05:09 -0500 2007
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Abstract: ... and commendation, the asceticism of the [one] who loved the Dunya for the sake of the Hereafter. If your quest in the [act] of slaughtering the yearning, and [the acquisition of] asceticism [against] praise and commendation is successful, your [journey] shall be facilitated in your [quest] for Ikhlaas. If it is mentioned: What may facilitate the [act] of slaughtering the yearning and the [development] of asceticism [against] the praise and commendation? I say: The method of facilitating the [act] of slaughtering the yearning: Your definitive knowledge that there is no matter [present] that awakens one’s greed for, save the worship of Allah alone, and the Treasures which He alone possesses. For no individual can furnish the slave with [those Treasures] save He. The method of facilitating the [development] of asceticism [against] praise and commendation: Your knowledge that there is no individual who can [confer] benefit upon or beautify his praise, [nor] inflict damage upon or disgrace his vilification, save Allah alone. As the bedouin said to the Prophet, sallallahu `alaihi wa sallam: My praise [has been] embellished, and indeed my vilification [has been] disgraced. The Prophet sallallahu `alaihi wa sallam remarked: That is Allah. [Tirmidhi 3266, Kitab Tafseer al-Qur’an, Declared Saheeh] Accordingly, be ascetic for praise [and] the one who is incap... [Full Article...]
