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Iḥsān

Excellence or spiritual beauty: to worship God as if you see him, for if you do not, he sees you.

Also: Ihsan

Sufism and Islamic thought

Iḥsān is the third dimension of religion in the famous hadith of Gabriel, after submission and faith: to worship God as though you see him. Sufis have taken it as the definition of their path, the inner perfection of the outer law.