Having the correct understanding and a good intention are from the greatest of favours of Allaah upon His slave. Rather, there is nothing more honorable that Allah can give to His slave, after Islaam, except these two. Moreover, these are from the roots of Islaam and the upholding of it. Upon these two, the slave is safe from the path of those who have curse on them, those who corrupted their religion because of their dishonest intentions. And he is protected from the path of those who are misguided, those who were misguided due to their deficient amount of knowledge. So the one who has these favours, walks on a path of the one who has good placed upon him, he has accredited understanding and praiseworthy intentions. This person is upon the straight path, the path that we supplicate Allaah to guide us to in all of our Salaat. The path of knowledge that his Lord has lightened the heart of his slave to cast upon, he is able to distinguish that which is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is guidance and misguidance, what is crooked and straight. As he has been provided with having good intentions, he seeks the truth, he fears his Lord in private and in public, and he cuts off all roots to being enslaved by his desires and the effects of this worldly life.
I'laam al-Muwaqi'een 1/87
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