May God reward you with goodness. What is reckoning (al-ihtisab) for God, and what is its ruling?
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"Ihtisab" linguistically means: reward and good management, hastening to seek and obtain reward, and also denunciation and testing.
In Islamic terminology, it means: enjoining good and forbidding evil. Its ruling is fard kifayah (a collective obligation), and it may become an individual obligation in some cases.
It also means: seeking reward and hoping for recompense from Allah the Almighty, such as fasting out of faith and hope for reward (imanan wa ihtisaban).
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