[21]. The gift of piety fosters the following spiritual dispositions: first, dutiful respect for Allāh as a Loving and Kind Lord; second, a generous and great love for Him, so that a person wants to please Allāh, even if it means making sacrifices; and third, a loving obedience toward the teachings and commandments of the Qur’an and the Sunnah, respecting them as expressions of God’s love for us. As such, a person approaches prayer or worship not as a task or burden but as an act of joyful love; a person adheres to the commandments and teachings of Islam - as difficult as it may be at the time - because he knows they express God’s truth and therefore show the way to eternal happiness.