{"id":282,"date":"2026-03-27T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omoo.nl\/?p=282"},"modified":"2026-02-25T07:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:14:25","slug":"on-the-hadith-actions-are-judged-by-their-intentions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/on-the-hadith-actions-are-judged-by-their-intentions\/","title":{"rendered":"On the hadith &#8220;actions are judged by their intentions&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only way that actions can be judged by their intentions is if the world of &#8216;aql \u0639\u0642\u0644 is more real than the world of matter. In Arabic this statement (the conditional) could not be made i.e. it does not translate since &#8220;realness&#8221; and <em><strong>haqqiyah<\/strong><\/em> (al-haqq conv. translated as &#8220;the Real&#8221;) do not perfectly allign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the words of Ned Flanders of the Simpsons: &#8220;I cannot live in good intentions.&#8221; Relating to an episode in which his house is destroyed and despite good intentions no substantial building occurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only way that actions can be judged by their intentions is if the world of &#8216;aql \u0639\u0642\u0644 is more real than the world of matter. In Arabic this statement (the conditional) could not be made i.e. it does not translate since &#8220;realness&#8221; and haqqiyah (al-haqq conv. translated as &#8220;the Real&#8221;) do not perfectly allign. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,15,19],"tags":[25,68],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-determinism","category-philosophy","category-ramadan","tag-arabic","tag-hadith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}