{"id":15302,"date":"2025-05-29T04:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T11:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/?p=15302"},"modified":"2025-05-29T04:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T11:04:04","slug":"what-does-it-mean-for-iman-to-increase-and-decrease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/what-does-it-mean-for-iman-to-increase-and-decrease\/","title":{"rendered":"What does it mean for Im\u0101n to increase and decrease?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4919693 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-25612\" data-id=\"4919693\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-10260ea elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"10260ea\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p><span class=\"elementor-drop-cap\"><span class=\"elementor-drop-cap-letter\">I<\/span><\/span>m\u0101n can grow with obedience to All\u0101h through good deeds and acts of worship, and it can weaken with sins and neglect. Each act of worship strengthens one\u2019s faith, while disobedience causes it to diminish.<\/p>\n<p>The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) illustrated this concept when he said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>\u201cFaith has seventy-odd branches, the highest of which is the statement \u2018L\u0101 il\u0101ha ill\u0101 All\u0101h\u2019 (There is no deity worthy of worship except All\u0101h), and the lowest of which is removing something harmful from the road.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2014 <em>Sahih Muslim 35<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Im\u0101n can grow with obedience to All\u0101h through good deeds and acts of worship, and it can weaken<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamqa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15303,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15302\/revisions\/15303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}