BAHISHTI ZEWAR (Heavenly Ornaments)

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17. RIGHTS AND DUTIES IN ISLAM.

            ISLAM has given so thorough details of the obligations towards God, towards self and towards fellow human beings and other creatures that even a hundredth part of which is not to be found in any other religions.

18. TASAWWUF, ETHICS, SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND MANNERS IN ISLAM.

            No other religion contains even a shadow of the science of ethics, manners and Tasawwuf (Sufism) as derived from Qur'an and Hadith in ISLAM.
             The purpose of all efforts and struggles, devotional exercises and practices, and the end of all moral reform and self-purification is simply as follows in ISLAM : obedience to all the obligations and duties of Shari'ah according to sunnah (as contained in the Heavenly ornaments or bahishti zewar) easily and as a matter of habit, and the fulfilment of all the Islamic rights of Allah, of one's self, and of all the creatures of Allah. In these are the goods of this life and the hereafter.
          According to the greatest Mujaddid or Renovator of Tasawwuf in ISLAM, Maulana THANWI, the simple little thing which is the essence of Tasawwuf is, that in any act of obedience (or worship) when and where you feel laziness, take care of and win over laziness and do it; and similarly when and where you feel tempted to commit a sin or evil, control yourself and win over the temptation, and do not do it. To one who has developed this ability nothing further is needed because this very thing results in the aimed, desired and required close relationship with Allah as well as guarantees it and increases it!