Translations:Yirminci Lem'a/5/en
The verse:Verily We sent the Book down to you in truth, so worship God in sincerity, for God’s is sincerely practised religion,(39:2) and the noble saying of the Prophet (UWBP):“All men will perish, except the scholars, and all scholars will perish except those who act in accordance with their knowledge, and all of them will perish except the sincere, and even the sincere are in great danger,”(*[1])demonstrate together how important a principle of Islam is sincerity. From among the innumerable points concerning sincerity, we will briefly expound only five.
- ↑ *See, al-‘Ajluni, Kashf al-Khafa’, ii, 415; al-Ghazali, Ihya ‘Ulum al-Din, iii, 414.