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The word ihsan is derived from husn, which designates the quality of being good and beautiful. According to the lexicons, it means every positive quality (goodness, goodliness, beauty, comeliness, pleasingness, harmony, symmetry, desirability). The Koran employs the word hasana (pl. hasanat), occurring 29 times, from the same root as husn, occurring six times, to mean a good or beautiful deed or thing. The Koran also uses the word husna as a noun meaning the best, the most beautiful and desirability. The word ihsan is a verb that means to do or to establish what is good and beautiful. The Koran employs the word and its active particle muhsin (one who does what is beautiful) in 70 verses: "Those who do what is beautiful will receive the most beautiful and increase" (10:26) and "To God belongs whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth, so that He may recompense those who do the ugly for what they have done, and recompense those who do what is beautiful with the most beautiful" (53:31).

IJMA [ see FIQH ]

IJTIHAD [ see FIQH ]