{"id":8474,"date":"2016-03-14T15:56:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T13:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=8474"},"modified":"2016-03-14T16:04:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T14:04:07","slug":"the-sublime-character-and-honest-dealings-of-our-pious-predecessors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=8474","title":{"rendered":"The Sublime Character and Honest Dealings of our Pious Predecessors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/character-education.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8475\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"character-education\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8475\" height=\"199\" src=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/character-education-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/character-education-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/character-education-310x205.jpg 310w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/character-education.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Hazrat Shaikh Moulana Muhammad Zakariyya (rahmatullahi &lsquo;alaih) once mentioned:<\/p>\n<p>Many of our pious predecessors led such pious and righteous lives that those who merely observed their sublime character and honest dealings were forced to embrace Islam. Unfortunately, in today&rsquo;s times our condition has become such that people are turned away from Islam after observing our dealings and&nbsp;character. (Malfoozaate Hazrat Shaikh 1\/63)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazrat Shaikh Moulana Muhammad Zakariyya (rahmatullahi &lsquo;alaih) once mentioned: Many of our pious predecessors led such pious and righteous lives that those who merely observed their sublime character and honest dealings were forced to embrace Islam. Unfortunately, in today&rsquo;s times our condition has become such that people are turned away from Islam after observing our &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-8474","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\/8474","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=8474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8477,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474\/revisions\/8477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}