Useful things providing men with a healthy, salutary, comfortable and cheerful life (in this world) and endless happiness in the Hereafter are called Ni’met (blessing). Allâhu ta’âlâ, being very compassionate, created all the blessings His born slaves would need. And through His heavenly books, which He revealed to His Prophets, He instructed us on how we should use and utilize them. These instructions are called Dîn. If any person, Muslim and disbeliever alike, leads a life in conformity with these books, he will enjoy comfort and peace in the world. A drugstore carries hundreds of medicines. And each of these medicines has a set of instructions packed with it. A person who uses the medicine as it is prescribed in the instructions will benefit from it. He who does not follow the instructions will suffer harm. Likewise, a person who lives compatibly with the Qur’ân al-kerîm will benefit from the blessings. It is necessary to be a Muslim so that you can attain happiness in this world and in the Hereafter, while living peacefully and joyfully. One who has faith and performs his acts of worship is called a Muslim. Having faith means to believe in six certain essentials and all of the commandments and prohibitions. Allâhu ta’âlâ is pleased with those who are true Muslims. A true Muslim is loved by Allâhu ta’âlâ. Being a true Muslim requires you to have the faith taught by the Ahl-as-Sunna savants, and to worship correctly and sincerely. Allâhu ta’âlâ has promised that He will love such people, that He will inspire fayds and nûrs into their hearts in the world and that in the Hereafter He will give thawâb (blessings) as a reward for the acts of worship performed correctly and sincerely. Worshipping means doing the commands (fards) and taqwâ means avoiding the prohibitions (harâms). Performing an act of worship correctly requires learning how it is to be done, and performing it by following the instructions you have learned. Ikhlâs means to do every act of worship for the grace of Allâhu ta’âlâ only. Worshipping Allâhu ta’âlâ is done by giving away one’s property and by worshipping physically. For example, performing pious and charitable deeds, saving Muslims from trouble, remembering Allâhu ta’âlâ, and asking for forgiveness (tawba) are all forms of worship. There is no ikhlâs (sincerity) but riyâ (hypocrisy) in the worship which is done to obtain property, rank, respect or fame. Such worship is not rewarded with blessings. It will be a sin and a cause for being tormented. Dark stains develop in the hearts of those who commit harâms or bid’a (heresy), and also in the hearts of those who are the friends or neighbours of disbelievers or lâ-madhhabî individuals. Imâm-i Rabbânî ‘rahmatullâhi ’alaih’ says in the fifty-ninth letter of the first volume of his book Maktûbât: “When beginning any worship, all Muslims must keep in their minds the intention of performing an act for Allâhu ta’âlâ’s grace. Allâhu ta’âlâ has ordered them to do so, and He loves it. Hence, they will perform that act sincerely. However, all good deeds and favours should be done with sincerity (Ikhlâs), and this sincerity must come immediately from the heart. A good intention and ikhlâs are obtained with difficulty and by disciplining oneself, and the results are never permanent. Gradually the desires of the nafs settle in the heart. Owners of permanent ikhlâs are called Mukhlâs. Those who have inconstant ikhlâs and who strive to obtain ikhlâs are called Mukhlis. It is easy and sweet for a mukhlâs to worship. This is because there are no desires of the nafs or anxiety from the devil in their hearts. This kind of ikhlâs can only come into one’s heart through the heart of a Walî.” While beginning to worship one can obtain inconstant ikhlâs by fighting against one’s nafs and the devil. Doing worships with this ikhlâs causes the nafs to become weak in process of time..