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ACADEMIC YEAR 2024-2025

NOTES
SUBJECT: ISLAMIC STUDIES

Name: Date:
Grade: 8 Teacher’s sign:

UNIT:ONE, LESSON: THREE


ACTIONS ARE JUDGED BY INTENTION

Learning objectives:
1. Read the noble hadith properly.
2. Explain the meaning of the noble hadith.
3. Extrapolate the relationship between sincerity of intention (ikhlāṣ al-niyyah) and
the acceptance of actions.
Answer the Questions:
Q1: What is the good nature of acts that are dependent on intentions?
Ans: Good act is dependent on the true intention. For example, purification, which includes
partial (wudu'), full (ghusl) and dry ablution (tayammum,) is not valid unless there is an
intention to do it. The same applies to prayer, zakat, fasting, pilgrimage, retiring into
seclusion in a mosque.
Q2: What is the importance of sincerity in intention?
Ans: Sincerity means doing an act to obey the order of Allah, glory be to Him, and seek His
pleasure and reward. All acts by a Muslim must be done with sincere intentions to be
accepted and rewarded. It is a grace by Allah, glory be to Him, that a Muslim is rewarded for
good intention but is not punished for bad ones. Islam stressed this approach to build a
society that is based on good intentions; once this is achieved, it would have populated earth

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with good acts.
Q3: Which kinds of deeds Allah will accept on the day of judgement?
Ans: Allah, glory be to Him, accepts only deeds that were intended as obedience to Him.
This meaning is stressed in the hadith: "When one's emigrations to Allah and His Messenger,
his emigration is to Allah and His Messenger". The Muslim may apply this hadith to get
reward in many fields of his life, as habits and permitted acts can become worship acts for
which one is rewarded if there is good intention. A Muslim may be rewarded while he is
asleep.
Q4: What is the harmful Impact of Riyāʾ (Ostentation and Showing Off) on good
deeds?
Ans: Riya or Showing off is when someone does something for reputation only, so that
people praise him and talk about what he did. Showing off has serious consequences for the
individual, society and Muslims as a whole; it makes deeds worthless and kills conscience.

Read the meaning of the words.

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