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« His words, Exalted is He: [98:5] And they were only commanded to worship God, devoting religion purely to Him He said: All knowledge is concerned with acts (ḥarakāt),1 until the person attains sincerity (ikhlāṣ). Then when he reaches sincerity, he will attain profound peace (ṭumaʾnīna).2 For the one whose knowledge [has become] certainty (yaqīn) and whose works are [done in] sincerity, will find that God removes from him three things: anxiety (jazaʿ), ignorance (jahl) and action (ʿamal), and will grant him patience (ṣabr) in exchange for anxiety, knowledge in exchange for igno- rance, and the abandonment of choice in exchange for action — but this will only be the case »