One of the most beneficial things that will help you in achieving sincerity and the removal of blemishes from your intentions is truthfulness. You must realize that you will be asked about your knowledge in this life and the next.<\/p>\n

If you fail to recognize your inward reality’s impoverishment and disparity from its outward appearance, then you are despised and you have despised your own soul just as the hadith<\/em> has indicated.<\/p>\n

The first step in moving towards sincerity of the heart is to protect your tongue from lying. Know that your tongue is what expresses your inward state. It expresses for you your knowledge and your practice. It has only one noble quality, and that is truthfulness.<\/p>\n

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The article is excerpted from Zaytuna Institute\u2019s Program and Agenda for Changing our Condition \u201cRemembering the Days of Allah\u201d, which is a<\/em>dapted from Qadi Abu Bakr Ibn Al-`Arabi (the famous Maliki jurist, Qur\u2019an commentator and hadith expert).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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