Themes · theme
Solidarity among those who serve faith: avoiding rivalry and envy, taking pride in one another's merits, and acting as a single collective body.
3 Flashes
Reading the verse "I ask no reward but love of close kin," this Flash dwells on the Prophet's compassion and his Family (the Âl-i Beyt), then takes up the old Sunni–Shi'a dispute over the early Caliphate — describing, not adjudicating, it — and closes with an urgent plea for Sunni–Alevi reconciliation.
The companion treatise to the 21st: five points on sincerity (ihlâs) that open with a piercing question — why do the worldly cooperate while the people of truth fall into rivalry? — and answer it by locating the disease in the craving for men's regard, and its cure in seeking God's pleasure alone.
Sincerity (ihlâs): doing every act for God's pleasure alone, purified of show, ego and worldly reward — with three things that break it and four rules to win and protect it.
