True Piety
18 05 2008
As-salaamu ‘alaykum wa rahmatullahe wa barkaatuh
This is what true piety is all about. Summarized in one verse, these are the characteristics of one who is truly pious - aka. the attributes of a muslim.
Bismilahi arahmani rahim
Allah subhana wa taala says in the Holy Quran:
Al-Baqara (The Cow)
2:177 True piety does not consist in turning your faces towards the east or the west - but truly pious is he who believes in God, and the Last Day; and the angels, and revelation, [144] and the prophets; and spends his substance - however much he himself may cherish - it - upon his near of kin, and the orphans, and the needy, and the wayfarer, and the beggars, and for the freeing of human beings from bondage; and is constant in prayer, and renders the purifying dues; and [truly pious are] they who keep their promises whenever they promise, and are patient in misfortune and hardship and in time of peril: it is they that have proved themselves true, and it is they, they who are conscious of God.
