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those who are not. This arises from doubt concerning the perfection of belief and not its reality.
Every person doubts the perfectness of his belief, yet this doubt does not constitute unbelief.
Doubting
the perfectness of belief is right and justified for two reasons: The first is because hypocrisy
militates
against the perfectness of belief, and hypocrisy is something hidden while freedom from it is
readily
discerned or determined.
The second is because belief is perfected through the fulfillment of good deeds which are not known
to
exist in their perfect form.
As for deeds Allah says: "The believers are those who believe in Allah and His Messenger, and do not
doubt; and who struggle in His way with their possessions and their selves. Such are the truthful
ones."
(Quran 49:15). The doubt would, there- fore, be concerning this truthfulness.
Every person doubts the perfectness of his belief, yet this doubt does not constitute unbelief.
Doubting
the perfectness of belief is right and justified for two reasons: The first is because hypocrisy
militates
against the perfectness of belief, and hypocrisy is something hidden while freedom from it is
readily
discerned or determined.
The second is because belief is perfected through the fulfillment of good deeds which are not known
to
exist in their perfect form.
As for deeds Allah says: "The believers are those who believe in Allah and His Messenger, and do not
doubt; and who struggle in His way with their possessions and their selves. Such are the truthful
ones."
(Quran 49:15). The doubt would, there- fore, be concerning this truthfulness.