MAJALAH AL-HIKMAH EDISI 04 | 2016

16 It is the freedom of the desire for nearness to Allah from every blemish or impurity; It is singling out Allah with one's intention in all acts of worship; It is forgetting the sight of the creation by continual observance of the Creator; and It is to hide your good deeds just like you would hide your evil deeds. [Taken from the book Al- Ikhlas by Abu Muhammad ibn Sa'id al- Baylawi] So be warned - brother and sister Muslim - that no action is acceptable to Al- lah if somebody else is given a share in it. Reflect carefully upon the words of Yusuf ibn al -Husayn ar-Razi: "Indeed the hardest thing (to achieve) in this world is ikhlas . How many times have I struggled to extin- guish riya' (showing off) from my heart except that it only appeared again in a different colour." [Jami ul-'Ulum wal- Hikam of Ibn Rajab al- Hanbali] Also reflect upon the words narrated by Ibn Qudamah al- Maqdisi in his Mukhtasir Minhaj al-Qasidin, "Indeed mankind, all of them, are de- stroyed except those with knowledge and all those with knowledge are destroyed except those who act upon it and all those who act are destroyed ex- cept those who are sincere in their action and all those who are sincere are in great danger (of associating other than Allah in their actions)."