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Al-Ghazali on Intention, Sincerity & Truthfulness: Kitab al-niyya wa'l-ikhlas wa'l-sidq. prophetic invocations Tafsir Ibn Kathir : VolumeAl Ghazali on Intention, Sincerity & Truthfulness is the thirty seventh chapter of the Revival of the Religious Sciences. It falls in the section dealing with the virtues. Here Ghazali deals with the very important subject of intention which is of crucial importance in Islam. He asks: 'How can someone ignorant of the meaning of intention verify his own intention; or how can someone ignorant of the meaning of sincerity verify his own sincerity; or how