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[Mustafa]

Bismillah

Wikiedia: "Al-Ikhlas means "the purity" or "the refining".
Through my growth I have learnt that Ikhlas means loyality.
And when i think now about words similar ... I find that the meaning to Ikhlas is close to loyality than purity.
I would be suprised if ... Haha. Then this would be a total, JOKE! Haha.

Thanks guys.

Peace

[mun3t]

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

If you suggest to surat al-Ikhlas, it has been translated as 'unity'. This is either for the Arabic word mean unity or they "summarize" the entire chapter through this word. Anyway, you could assume that it means 'unity' not anything else.

However, the 'Ikhlas' which means loyality is 'Mokhlasen' which can be translated to loyal or sincere. For example, this surah of the Noble Qur'an:

- [31:32] And when waves come over them like canopies, they supplicate Allah , sincere to Him in religion. But when He delivers them to the land, there are [some] of them who are moderate [in faith]. And none rejects Our signs except everyone treacherous and ungrateful. [Surat Luqman]

- [31:32]
وَإِذَا غَوَإِذَا غَشِيَهُمْ مَّوْجٌ كَالظُّلَلِ دَعَوُاْ اللَّهَ مُخْلِصِينَ لَهُ الدِّين
[Surat Luqman]

[alimohamad40]

salaam
ikhlas is purity
its not unity and its not loyalty

the reason they said unity is because they are talking about "Ikhlas al Tawheed"  = the purification of unity

loyalty is Wafaa

the loyalty of the dog is the wafa of the dog


your right that ikhlas can mean loyalty as well in some contexts

the word ikhlas is derived from the "khalasa"  which means " what remained or what was filtered out or refined
khulasa = summery
Istikhlas= refining and distillation
khollas= pure followers
khalas= finished ( the refining has finished)

Edited by alimohamad40, 10 September 2011 - 04:31 AM.

[Waiting for HIM]

In practicle terms, like in islamic irfaan, ikhlas is adjective of being ultra muttaqi. It is hard to explain but let's say from the example of Imam Ali , him being an Imam and the leader of humanity at his time, he cluld have lived like Yousuf and Suleman since according to real Islam, momin has more right on the blessing of Allah than a non momin. But he chose to live like a most destitute of momins even though he was ameer ul momineen, but his portion in this world out of his own choice was just a few pieces of barley breads and so on.

What i tried to explain is just one aspect of it, but there could be many many dimensions in which you could understand the meaning of ikhlas while the real meaning of ikhlas will be the comprehensiveness of these dimensions to make it holistic.

Another meaning of iklas could be how far do you take the meaning of "ei yaka naa' bodo was ii ya ka nastaeen", in AlHamd when we say " to You only we worship and to you only we seek for help" a really really deep ayat (read tafseer of AlHamd from Ay. Khoei' . Iklas is something which also emanates from ilm to understanding to conceptualizing Allah commands in its right form to taking it to the level of IShQ to bringing into your daily movements and practicing and in the end would not care about the rewards or recognitions.

Edited by Waiting for HIM, 10 September 2011 - 06:17 AM.

[aladdin]

Sincerity, the surah is asking the Christians to be Sincere.


112.003 He begetteth not, nor is He begotten.

Thus, it is more close to purity.

Purity is sincerity.

[Mustafa]

Thank you very much.