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A spiritual virtue, which makes man's real personality outstanding and in the light of which man's Hereafter and worldly life becomes meaningful is piety, an outcome of man's heart being illuminated with the light of God's cognition and man's affinity with God.
This is not possible except by worshipping Him ad performing what is known as religious duties. The present decadence is due to man's failure to know
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1 See as-Sahifat al-Kamila as-Sajjadiyya
2 See Duaa Abu-Hamza ath-Themali
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himself. The reason why corruption has spread throughout the world, the human society has been entangled in the bottleneck of a bestial life, and there is no way out is because man has failed to recognize his own stand. He has been deviated from acts of worship and God seeking path, which is his special task. Man's big sin is failure to get to know himself, which will lead to knowledge of God.
