{"id":6848,"date":"2014-10-27T09:23:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T07:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=6848"},"modified":"2014-10-27T16:04:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T14:04:06","slug":"advantages-of-adopting-the-appearance-of-the-pious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=6848","title":{"rendered":"Advantages of adopting the appearance of the pious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Quran.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Quran\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6455\" height=\"183\" src=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Quran.jpg\" width=\"275\" \/><\/a>Hazrat Shaikh Moulana Muhammad Zakariyya (Rahmatullahi Alaihi) mentioned:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Beloved friends! It is not something to be said, however I feel I should mention it to you. Undoubtedly, we are not pious people; nevertheless we endeavour to adopt the appearance of the pious and truthful. We have hope that through adopting the appearance of the pious and truthful, Allah Ta&rsquo;ala will also favour us and will not deprive us of His grace. Look at the incident of Moosa (&lsquo;alaihis salaam) and Fir&rsquo;oun. In the era of Fir&rsquo;oun, the magicians confronted Nabi Moosa (&lsquo;alaihis salaam) (with the intention of opposing him). However on account of them imitating his clothing and outward appearance, Allah Ta&rsquo;ala gave them taufeeq of embracing Islam and Allah Ta&rsquo;ala favoured them. (Malfoozaate Hazrat Shaikh 1\/107)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazrat Shaikh Moulana Muhammad Zakariyya (Rahmatullahi Alaihi) mentioned: &ldquo;Beloved friends! It is not something to be said, however I feel I should mention it to you. Undoubtedly, we are not pious people; nevertheless we endeavour to adopt the appearance of the pious and truthful. We have hope that through adopting the appearance of the pious &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343,14],"tags":[345,410],"class_list":["post-6848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-hadhrat-shaikh-rahmatullahi-alaihi","category-malfoozaat","tag-hazrat-shaikh","tag-malfoozaat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6848"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6854,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848\/revisions\/6854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}