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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Imam ‘Ali’s First Treatise On The Islamic Ethics And Education Be sincere in your asking from your Lord, for in His hand is the bestowal and refusal, and ask God frequently for the best.

=============================================================================================================================== "و اخلص في المسألة لربّك فانّ بيده العطاء والحرمان واكثر الاستخارة" There are significant points in this statement, two of which will be dealt with here: I. Being Sincere in Supplication "Sincerity in prayer" means that a believer should ask God only for his needs and in carrying the prayer out a believer should not be in doubt, neither should he employ hypocrisy.

"Blessed is he who is sincere to God in his worship and supplication, and does not occupy his heart with what his eyes see, nor forgets God’s remembrance through what his ears hear, and does not become sorrowful at what others have been given".

[^2] Then Imam ‘Ali (as) shows the reasons of the philosophy of sincerity in the following manner: since bestowal and withholding is in the hands of God, it is absurd for man to ask or supplicate anybody else or to worship anybody else or assume any partner for God.[^3] II.

Asking God For Abundant Goodness " Istikhara " means to ask for good or to weigh the importance of an option and to select the best one.[^4] It also means to ask God to give him the best.[^5] But in the language of Shari’ah (or religion) it means to ask God for the best.