{"id":470,"date":"2015-12-16T11:45:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T19:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?p=470"},"modified":"2018-07-26T20:32:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T04:32:39","slug":"the-meaning-and-practice-of-piety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?p=470","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning and Practice of Piety"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7328\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/12-05-2015.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7328','http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/12-05-2015.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/12-05-2015.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?powerpress_pinw=470-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/12-05-2015.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"12-05-2015.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piety is a critical concept in religious spirituality and mysticism. It is also cherished in all world religions.  In fact, piety is the bedrock of the Islamic value system. The Quran informs us that God does not judge a person\u2019s worth by gender, race, blood lineage, IQ, financial wealth or even religious affiliation; rather, piety is God\u2019s yardstick to judge human beings. This lecture explores piety as it relates to spiritual growth and development.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7329\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/12-05-2015.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7329','http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/12-05-2015.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/12-05-2015.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?powerpress_pinw=470-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/12-05-2015.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"12-05-2015.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-lectures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}