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SOME SECRETS OF THE QUR'AN

Book and the Prophets, and who, despite their love
for it, give away their wealth to their relatives and to
orphans and the very poor, and to travellers and
beggars and to set slaves free, and who establish
regular prayer (salat) and pay regular charity (zakat);
those who honour their contracts when they make
them, and are steadfast in poverty and illness and in
battle. Those are the people who are true. They are
the people who have fear for God. (Surat al-Baqara:
177)

As the verse above draws our attention, true goodness is
to have fear of God, to keep oneself occupied with the
remembrance of the day of reckoning, to follow one's
conscience and always to engage in deeds which would
please God. God's Messenger, Prophet Muhammad, peace be
upon him, also bid believers to fear God and to do good:
Fear God wherever you are. Do good immediately after a sinful act to
erase it, and always be well-mannered in your relationship with
people. 5
God has revealed in the Qur'an that He loves those who
always do good due to their faith and their fear and love for
God, and adds that He will reward them with good:

So God gave them the reward of the life of this
world and the best reward of the hereafter. God
loves the good-doers. (Surah Ali 'Imran: 148)
... There is good in the life of this world for those
who do good, and the abode of the hereafter is even
better. How wonderful is the abode of those who
have fear of God. (Surat an-Nahl: 30)
This is good news given in the Qur'an to those who do