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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Imam ‘Ali’s First Treatise On The Islamic Ethics And Education Strengthen Your Heart With Certainty ======================================== “ وَقوِّهِ بِاليَقِينِ “ Certainty or conviction is a decisive, stable, mental state in accordance with reality and unperishable which gives peace and quiet to the man of conviction, this conviction being related to knowledge about God or related to other matters of belief.[^1] This kind of conviction which is beyond the usual belief and knoledge and in Khwaja Nasr's understanding of the term, consists of two kinds of knowledge: the knowledge of what is known, and the knowledge that its converse is impossible.

Imam Reza (as) has stated: "الاِيمانُ فَوقَ الاِسلامِ بِدَرَجَةٍ وَالتَقوَى فَوقَ الاِيمَانِ بِدَرَجَةٍ وَاليَقِينُ فَوقَ التَقوَى بِدَرَجَةٍ وَلَم يُقَسَّم بَينَ العِبَادِ شَيئٌ اَقَلُّ مِنَ اليَقِينُ" "Faith is one degree above Islam; God-wariness is one degree above faith. Certainty is one degree above God-wariness.

Nothing less than certainty is divided among God's believers" [^2] The narrator says: I heard Imam as-Sadiq (as) saying: "اِنَّ العَمَلَ الدَائِمَ القَلِيلَ عَلى اليَقِين اَفضَلُ عِندَ الله مِنَ العَمَلِ الكَثِيرِ عَلى غَيرِ يَقِينٍ" "Indeed, a small act based on certainty that is performed continually, is better before God than abundant actions not based on certainty" [^3] He also said: "اِنَّ اللهَ بِعَدلِهِ وقِسْطِهِ جَعَلَ الرُّوحَ وَالرَّاحَة في اليَقِينَ وَالرِّضَا وَجَعَلَ الهَمَّ وَالحُزنَ في الشَّكِ وَالسَخَطِ" "With his justice and fairness, God has put tranquility and ease in certainty and satisfaction, and has put sorrow and grief in doubt and displeasure".

[^4] Types Of Certainty Certainty has degrees. These degrees are referred to in the Qur’an as "certain knowledge” , to see with the “eye of certainty" and "certain truth". The verses 5 and 7 of Surah al-Takathur: “Nay! If you had known with certain knowledge, you should most certainly have seen Hell; then you shall most certainly see it with the eye of certainty” "كَلَّا لَوْ تَعْلَمُونَ عِلْمَ الْيَقِينِ ...