and admit you into Paradise? Set out in the path of Allah; whoever fights in Allah’s cause for the span of a fawāq nāqah (the time it takes to milk a camel), Paradise is assured for him.” Al-Tirmidhi said, “A ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ (sound and good) hadith.”⦗1⦘
A fawāq nāqah is the interval between two milkings of the camel.
Conditions for Action
215 – The whole affair is gathered in what al-Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ said regarding Allah’s words, “that He may test you as to which of you is best in deed” (Sūrat al-Mulk, 2). He explained, “The best deed is the one that is most sincere and most correct.”
They asked him, “Abū ʿAlī, what makes a deed most sincere and most correct?”
He replied, “If a deed is sincere but not correct, it will not be accepted; and if it is correct but not sincere, it will not be accepted—until it combines both sincerity and correctness. Sincerity means that it is done for Allah alone, and correctness means that it conforms to the Sunnah.”⦗2⦘