We are obligated to respect and venerate it from another perspective, not from the perspective of it being evidence. This is why we venerate the Qur’an, because the Lawgiver commanded us to respect and venerate it, not because it is evidence. Then it has another sanctity because it is evidence, and by it we justify its respect at some point, for we say in it that it is the word of God, even if we are the writers of it with our own hands.
( Chapter on the obligation of performing ablution on one’s side when one intends to sleep, or to have sexual intercourse again, or to eat or drink )
Sharia scholars differed regarding what we mentioned in this translation. Some say that it is obligatory. And whoever says that it is desirable, I say so.
[ Page 358 of the Cairo edition ]
( The internal ruling has arrived in this matter )
As for the internal ruling on that, the intention is for the one whose legal purity was invalidated due to desire that made him forget the truth when it became strong. If he wanted to sleep, he intended in sleep to give the right to the eye, then that is the purity of impurity. If he wanted to sleep, then impurity nullified his purity, which is alienation from the place of faith that was He must be present with him, had it not been for the dominance of the power of desire that has consumed him from himself and from everything else, as well as