Suhaib Webb – Sincerity Demands Consistency

The word Ikhlas

means to be pure,

to purify something.

I heard from Sheikh Abdul Hamoud from Ib

Yemen. It's one of my teachers.

Right? You purify something from filth. But imam

says something beautiful about

why we have to constantly make sure that

we're trying to be sincere. It's not a

one time thing. It's not like I achieve

achieve sincerity, and then I'm good for the

rest of my life.

I have to, like, battle

always. Sufyan al Thawri,

he said, like, there's nothing more difficult than

sincerity because every time I thought I I

got it, I lost it.

So

Imam Aragha al Asfahani, and his he has

a great dictionary

that he wrote

about the Quran,

And he says that

this word

comes from a word which means you purify

something,

but then

still

it can have some

shortcomings. Like it's not permanent. It's not a

permanent sanitation. It's not a permanent form of

purity.

Something that we always have to work on.

And he says that

is to make everything for Allah

to make Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala exclusive for

worship.