Every one in this have his own vision about the righteousness. Some people think that they just clap, dance and whistle in front of their gods and goddess is the righteousness thing. Some people think that they will go to church and confess their crimes on the hands of the pop is the righteousness thing. Some people think that fasting is the righteousness and some think that the help of the poor and humanity is the right thing according to their religion and vision. Some people think that they adopt one thing and neglect the other, Islam covers all the aspects of the life and do not allow any one to conceal the covenant of Allah.
Kindly read the following verse of the Holy Quran which covers the different aspects of the Life and tell us which is the righteousness and which is not the right path:
"It is not righteousness that you turn your faces towards the East and the West, but righteousness is this that one should believe in Allah and the last day and the angels and the Book and the prophets, and give away wealth our of love of Him to the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and the beggars and for (the emancipation of ) the captives, and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate; and the performers of their promise when they make a promise, and the patient in distress and affliction and in time of conflicts ---- these are they who are true (to themselves) and these are they who guard (against evil)."
(Surah No: 2 & Verse No: 177)
Allah clearly mentioned the main objectives of the life of a Muslim in a small verse and assure that all those who follow the instruction will have the heavens in the reward and their is no righteousness in the other things. Allah in formed that all those who just follow one thing and leave the others thing will not be a true Muslim. All those Muslims who think that they just say their prayer and left the other things are very wrong. They must think that what they are doing in their life. Similarly i met some people who do not believe in the prayers etc and just concentrate on the help of the poor. No doubt it is a good think but not enough.
Our life is divided into two major categories, one portion belongs to the Allah and the second one belongs to the service of the humans. We can not avoid any one we must think that we do not become center oriented around one thing. I know that it is very hard to wake up early in the morning and bow our head in front of our Lord. We can reach on every meeting, office and on business in time but we can not able to reach to the mosque for our prayers in time. We do not have enough time in our whole day, now we change our prayers to Juma Prayer and think that we fulfill our responsibility towards our Lord. Just think what we are doing. Just think what we will get when we will die.
