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Friday, May 24, 2013
TAQWA SELF-CHECK: HOW TO RECOGNIZE PIETY IN ONE'S SELF?
HOW TO
RECOGNIZE PIETY?
Someone once asked Hadhrat
Shafeeq bin Ibraheem (R.A), "People call me a pious person. How can piety be
recognized?"
The reply was, “Itcan be recognized by three factors.
These are: 1. Explain your inner condition to the
pious people. If they are satisfied, then you are pious, otherwise not.
2. Offer the world to your
heart. If it refuses the world then you are pious, otherwise not.
3. Offer death to
yourself. If you are pleased with it, then you are pious, otherwise not.
If a person has these
three qualities, he should thank Allah and display humility. He should then
never allow ostentation to infect his actions, for this will pour water over
all that he does."
-Taken from
'Tambih-ul-Ghafileen' by Faqih Abu Lais Samarqandi [R.A]
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