Good Beliefs – Fundamental Righteousness

 

 

Real goodness No. 1 - Good Faith (L-202)

لَيسَ البِرَّ أَن تُوَلّوا وُجوهَكُم قِبَلَ المَشرِقِ وَالمَغرِبِ وَلٰكِنَّ البِرَّ مَن آمَنَ بِاللَّهِ وَاليَومِ الآخِرِ وَالمَلائِكَةِ وَالكِتابِ وَالنَّبِيّينَ 177a.

177a.  Laysal-birra ‘an-  tuwalluu  wujuuhakum  qibalal-Mashriqi  wal-Magribi  wa laakinnal-birra  man  ‘aama-na  Billaahi  wal-  Yawmil-‘Akhiri  wal-  malaaa-‘ikati  wal-Kitaabi  wan-nabiyyiin.

177a.  Righteousness does not consist of turning your faces towards the East and the West. But righteous is he who believes in God, and the Last Day, and the angels, and the Scripture, and the prophets.

 ‘Al-birra – (Righteousness), it has vast meanings in Arabic language. Every kind of justification, goodness and uprightness, comes in the comprehension of this word.

‘Al-Mashriqu – (the East, the side in which the sun rises), Many eastern nations used to worship the Sun having belief in it that it was God because it rises in the east. So, uneducated nations took it as a sacred direction. Holy Qur’an stroke this thought severely and described that taking only anyone direction as sacred was not the righteousness and obedience. Completion of the righteousness exists only with true beliefs and good deeds.

‘Al-  malaaa—‘ikatu - (the Angels) (Peace be upon them), to admit the existence of that bright creature which keeps up doing the works commanded by God, it is necessary to believe in them (Peace be upon them).

‘Al-Kitaabu - (the Scripture), it means the entire Heavenly Scriptures. It is necessary also to have belief in all of them.

‘An-nabiyyiin – it signifies towards the entire Prophets and Messengers (Peace be upon them) who were appointed by God in this world time and time again for guidance of the human beings. It is necessary too to believe in all of them.

When the Children of Israel heard the proclamation by means of Holy Qur’an concerning censure of partnership with God and punishment of infidelity, they shivered with terror and replied by saying: We worship confronting Bait-ul-Muqaddas (Jerusalem). So we have been even following the Heavenly Scripture. Why shall we suffer the Doom? In this verse, it has been replied to their stubbornness.

This verse is one of the most important verses. A comprehensive concept of the righteousness has been mentioned in it that the virtue is not only the name of mere devotion and worship, and it is not also the name of worship by turning face towards any particular direction. Moreover, according to Islam, the righteousness grows by correcting the both, the faith and the personal deeds. It has equal importance for belief, affairs, prayers, morality, behavior, sincerity and sacrifice (all). https://youtu.be/1L9C7h2vCYk