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SINCERITY DESCRIBED IN THE QUR’AN

that sincerity is the spirit and foundation of all good deeds. By
cultivating a kind of rivalry and hostility toward Allah’s saints, he
is in fact placing in doubt the breadth of Allah’s compassion…

O people of the truth and the path! The service of the truth is like
carrying and preserving a great and weighty treasure. Those who
carry that trust on their shoulders will be happy and grateful
whenever powerful hands rush to their aid. Far from being jealous,
one should proudly applaud the superior strength, effectiveness and
capacity of those who in upright love come forward to offer their
help. Why then look on true brothers and self-sacrificing helpers in
a spirit of rivalry, thus losing sincerity?" 25
Here, Bediuzzaman has reminded true believers that
jealousy and rivalry have no place in the morality of Paradise.
Just as rivalry has no place in Paradise, pious deeds aiming to
gain Paradise could never be tainted with jealousy or rivalry.
True believers are friends, guardians and brothers of each
other, both in the life of this world and in the hereafter. Each
serves the same purpose. The more they support each other,
the more they will be pleasing to Allah. For this reason, what
befits a true believer is to help and be proud of the other,
rather than being jealous of his noble qualities and competing
with him. In all situations, this is what best reflects sincerity.
The Prophet (saas) told of the need for this unity, mutual
affection and comraderie among true believers as follows:
"You will observe that the believers are like the parts of the body in
relation to each other in matters of kindness, love and affection.
When one part of the body is afflicted, the entire body feels it; there
is loss of sleep and a fever develops." 26

In another one of his works, Bediuzzaman Said Nursi
reminded Muslims that true believers could overcome