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الآية رقم (25) - وَبَشِّرِ الَّذِين آمَنُواْ وَعَمِلُواْ الصَّالِحَاتِ أَنَّ لَهُمْ جَنَّاتٍ تَجْرِي مِن تَحْتِهَا الأَنْهَارُ كُلَّمَا رُزِقُواْ مِنْهَا مِن ثَمَرَةٍ رِّزْقاً قَالُواْ هَـذَا الَّذِي رُزِقْنَا مِن قَبْلُ وَأُتُواْ بِهِ مُتَشَابِهاً وَلَهُمْ فِيهَا أَزْوَاجٌ مُّطَهَّرَةٌ وَهُمْ فِيهَا خَالِدُونَ

(25) - “And give good tidings to those who believe and do righteous deeds that they will have gardens [in Paradise] beneath which rivers flow. Whenever they are provided with a provision of fruit therefrom, they will say, "This is what we were provided with before." And it is given to them in likeness. And they will have therein purified spouses, and they will abide therein eternally.”

Therefore, since our religion is a religion of Akhlaq and behaviour, it is necessary that the behaviour corresponds with the beliefs.

Just as having belief without good deeds does not suffice, calling people towards good Akhlaq without religion makes it of no benefit.

Therefore, belief is the behavioural account of the heart which a human being will be accounted for, as the Prophet r said:

((الإِيمَان بِضْعٌ وَسَبْعُونَ، أَوْ بِضْعٌ وَسِتُّونَ شُعْبَةً، فَأَفْضَلُهَا قَوْلُ: لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللهُ، وَأَدْنَاهَا إِمَاطَةُ الْأَذَى عَنِ الطَّرِيقِ))

“Iman has sixty odd or seventy odd branches. The uppermost of all these is the Testimony of Faith: ‘La ilaha illallah’ (there is no true god except Allah) while the least of them is the removal of a harmful object from the road.”[3]

The companions of the Prophet r , his family and the first generation of Muslims understood well the real meaning of this. We hear of Sayyidina Umar t, who was a tyrant who worshipped idols before he became a Muslim, say after he had embraced Islam and later became the Khalifah: (By Allah, if I came across a sheep on the way to the Euphrates River, I would be afraid that Allah U would ask me about it on The Day of Judgement, “Oh Umar, why did you not pave for it a road?) And we hear of Sayyidina Abu Bakr t reminding his army before the conquest of Sham, (Oh people, stop and let me remind you of ten things that you have to memorize from me: Do not betray, do not grudge, do not be treacherous, do not mutilate, do not kill small children, the elderly and women, do not strip palm trees and do not burn them down, do not cut fruit-bearing trees and do not slaughter sheep, cows or camels except to be eaten. You will also pass by a group of people who seclude themselves in monasteries. Leave them and what they are secluding themselves for.