concept

Iḥsān

Beliefs & concepts

The named Islamic excellence of worshiping as though one sees God. Not piety as dutiful reverence alone, and not taqwa as God-consciousness alone.

Also known as Ihsan

Islam

  • Iḥsān appears in Islam.

    The Qur’an repeatedly praises the muḥsinīn — those who do iḥsān / excellence-in-good — and commands beautiful doing. Islamic excellence-speech in that revelation, not the Gabriel-hadith īmān/islām/iḥsān triad invent alone.

    from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Qur’an · M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation)

    M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an (Oxford).