{"id":21386,"date":"2023-12-25T17:42:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T15:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=21386"},"modified":"2023-12-25T17:42:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T15:42:07","slug":"the-basis-of-acquiring-righteousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=21386","title":{"rendered":"The Basis of Acquiring Righteousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21387\" src=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/new-Turkey-musjid.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/new-Turkey-musjid.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/new-Turkey-musjid-190x127.jpeg 190w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/new-Turkey-musjid-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/new-Turkey-musjid-310x205.jpeg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hazrat Moulana Ashraf Ali Thaanwi (rahimahullah) once mentioned the following:<\/p>\n<p>The basis of one acquiring righteousness is having complete reliance on one\u2019s sheikh, and thereafter adhering to his teachings. However, it is necessary for one to be careful and examine the level of deen of the person one wishes to select as his sheikh to guide him in the path of deen. Otherwise, through choosing the wrong person as one\u2019s guide, one will end up treading on the path of misguidance.<\/p>\n<p>(Malfoozaat Hakeemul Ummat 24\/198)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazrat Moulana Ashraf Ali Thaanwi (rahimahullah) once mentioned the following: The basis of one acquiring righteousness is having complete reliance on one\u2019s sheikh, and thereafter adhering to his teachings. However, it is necessary for one to be careful and examine the level of deen of the person one wishes to select as his sheikh to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[340,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-hadhrat-thaanwi-rahmatullahi-alaihii","category-malfoozaat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21388,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21386\/revisions\/21388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}