۹ فروردین ۱۴۰۳ |۱۸ رمضان ۱۴۴۵ | Mar 28, 2024
Good Deed (al-ʿamal al-ṣaliḥ)

اَللّـهُمَّ اهْدِني فيهِ لِصالِحِ الإعمال،

O Allah, on this day, guide me towards righteous actions,

وَاقْضِ لي فيهِ الْحَوائِجَ والآمال،

fulfil my needs and hopes,

يا مَنْ لا يَحْتاجُ اِلَى التَّفْسيرِ وَالسُّؤالِ،

O One who does not need explanations nor questions,

يا عالِماً بِما في صُدُورِ الْعالَمينَ،

O One who knows what is in the chests of the (people of the) world.

صَلِّ عَلى مُحَمَّد وَآلِهِ الطّاهِرينَ.

Bless Muhammad and his family, the Pure.

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The Concept of Good Deed (al-ʿamal al-ṣaliḥ)

The term “good deed” is one of the key words which is used frequently in the Quran and has a broad scope of meaning. It refers to any good actions which are done for the sake of Allah and in order to earn His good pleasure.

Therefore, good deeds are not merely acts of worship such as prayers, fasting, performing the Ḥajj, giving Zakāt, Khums, reciting supplications or Ziarats. Although these acts of worship are the greatest examples of good deeds, any beneficial act that one does with a the intention of earning Allah’s proximity is considered a good deed.

Therefore, acts like worship, helping the needy, building hospitals, roads, and schools, establishing charity organizations, providing needy newly-weds with the basic household furniture and appliances, providing the single individuals in the society with the basic requirements to get married, paying for the treatment of needy people with incurable or refractory diseases, enjoining what is good and forbidding what is bad in the society, trying to guide the unaware individuals who are going astray, and admonishing the ignorant are all examples of good deeds (al-ʿamal al-ṣaliḥ).

Doing good deeds is so easy that if one even kicks a small rock off the road with the intention of preventing people’s cars to hit it, one is considered to have done a good deed.

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