Be Sincere In Your Aim And — You Will Find The Support Of Allah Surrounding You:
Sincerity towards Allah(swt) is the best type of sincerity. The Muslim is being sincere towards his Lord if he achieves sincerity in three aspects: Faith and Proper Belief, Acts of Obedience, and Morals and Manners.
Faith does not mean mere wishful Thinking — The one who is sincere in his Faith is the one who attains Faith in the way his Lord wants From him, which includes sincerity in Faith, sincerity in intention, and sincerity in Fear of Allah(swt).
Not every act of obedience is sincere unless it is done, both outwardly and inwardly, in a manner that Allah likes.
Allah has described the sincere in one verse, in which He says:
“It is not Al-Birr (piety, righteousness, and each and every act of obedience to Allah) that you turn your Faces towards east and (or) west (in prayers);
But Al-Birr is (the quality of) the one who believes in Allaah, the Last Day, the Angels, the Book, the Prophets and gives his wealth, in spite of love For it, to the kinsfolk, to the orphans, and to Al-Masaakeen (the poor), and to the wayfarer, and to those who ask, and to set slaves Free, performs As-Salaah (Iqaamat-as-Salaah), and gives the Zakât, and who Fulfil their covenant when they make it, and who are patient in extreme poverty and ailment (disease) and at the time of fighting (during the battles).”
Then Allah says, after listing all these attributes: “Such are the people of the Truth and they are Al‑Muttaqoon (the pious)”. (Al-Baqarah 2:177).
Sincerity with Allah is not something that we can make a show of and convince ourselves of whilst abandoning righteous deeds — Rather sincerity towards Allah is in the intention and the action when we do it and when the means of doing it become available.
The one who is Sincere towards his Lord will, using the sincerity of his intention, attain that (reward) which the one who does the action attains if something keeps him From doing the action.
It was narrated From Sahl ibn Hunayf (May Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (saw) said: “Whoever sincerely asks Allah For martyrdom, Allah will cause him to attain the status of the martyr, even if he dies in his bed.” (Narrated by Muslim, 1909).
So, the point is that — when we do all our work purely For the pleasure of our Lord, then we will get the help of the Lord.
May Allah(swt) grant us the ability to do all our work purely For His pleasure. (Ameen).
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