What is righteousness ?

Question

"It is not righteousness that you turn your faces towards East or West;

but it is righteousness to believe in God and the Last Day and the Angels, and the Book, and the Messengers;

to spend of your substance, out of love for Him, for your kin, for orphans for the needy, for the wayfarer, for those who ask; and for the freeing of captives;

to be steadfast in prayers, and practice regular charity;

to fulfill the contracts which you made;

and to be firm and patient in pain (or suffering) and adversity and throughout all periods of panic.

Such are the people of truth, the God-conscious."

Answer 1

Righteousness: adhering to moral principles.

Answer 2

” Most of us made important changes so that we could qualify for Christian baptism, but we must continue to uphold God’s righteous standards throughout our life. Some who started out well in this respect have allowed themselves to be sullied by the world. It is not easy to seek righteousness, for we are surrounded by people who view sexual immorality, lying, and other sins as normal. Yet, a strong desire to please Jehovah can overpower any tendency to seek the world’s approval by trying to blend in with it. Judah lost God’s favor because of mimicking her ungodly neighboring nations. Instead of imitating the world, then, let us be “imitators of God,” cultivating “the new personality which was created according to God’s will in true righteousness and loyalty.”—Ephesians 4:24; 5:1.

Answer 3

Righteousness means "right doing" = integrity, equity, justice,
upright, just, straight, innocent, true, sincere. It is best understood as the product of upright, moral action in accordance with a divine plan.

However, Soloman accounts in Ecclesiastes 7:28-29 I found one upright man among a thousand,...
God made mankind upright,
but men have gone in search of many schemes."


You have answered your own question.

Answer 4

In one sense, it is an attribute of God whereby He is said to be holy and righteous. In another sense it refers to the righteousness of man; either his inherent righteousness (or the lack thereof), or his potential right standing before God or as being "judged" or "reckoned" as righteous by God (as the patriarch Abraham was in Genesis).

Answer 5

Righteousness is doing the right thing.

Charity is feeding and helping the poor.

Holiness is living without sin.

Answer 6

righteousness in easy terms is right living. Jesus is my Righteousness, apart from Him, there is no good in me, I have clothed myself with the righteousness of Christ, which was given me by the death of Christ. Since Christ died for me and rose from the dead, I can live a righteous life, because He lives in me. He is my hope!!!

Answer 7

Righteousness is doing the BEST you can to serve God and obey God.

And the righteous are blessed indeed.

Answer 8

Righteousness is grace received from God. It comes through faith in Christ and not through works. It transforms sinners through the Holy Spirit.

Answer 9

Simply put - Righteousness is doing what's right.

Answer 10

O' creatures of Allah! the most beloved of Allah is he whom Allah has given power (to act) against his passions, so that his inner side is (submerged in) grief and the outer side is covered with fear. The lamp of guidance is burning in his heart. He has provided entertainment for the day that is to befall him. He regards what is distant to be near himself and takes the hard to be light. He looks at and perceives; he remembers (Allah) and enhances (the tempo of his) actions. He drinks sweet water to whose source his way has been made easy. So he drinks to satisfaction and takes the level path. He has put off the clothes of desires and got rid of worries except one worry peculiar to him. He is safe from misguidance and the company of people who follow their passions. He has become the key to the doors of guidance, and the lock for the doors of destruction.

He has seen his way and is walking on it. He knows his pillar (of guidance) and has crossed over his deep water. He has caught hold of the most reliable supports and the strongest ropes. He is on that level of conviction which is like the brightness of the sun. He has set himself for Allah, the Glorified, for performance of the most sublime acts of facing all that befalls him and taking every step needed for it. He is the lamp in darkness. He is the dispeller of all blindness, key to the obscure, remover of complexities, and a guide in vast deserts. When he speaks he makes you understand whereas when he remains silent then it is safe to do so. He did everything only for Allah and so Allah also made him His own. Consequently, he is like the mines of His faith and as a stump in His earth. He has enjoined upon himself (to follow) justice.