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الحجة لله على العبد.

بل هذه الآية مثل قوله: ﴿وهَدَيْناهُ النَّجْدَيْنِ﴾ [البلد: 10]، أي الطريقين بيناهما له فقال: ﴿إِنَّا هَدَيْناهُ السَّبِيلَ﴾ [الإنسان: 3]، أي بينا له ﴿إِمَّا شاكِراً﴾، فيعمل في السبيل بمقتضاه، إن كان نهيا انتهى، وإن كان أمرا فعل ﴿وإِمَّا كَفُوراً﴾، يقول يستر على نفسه، فيخادعون أنفسهم.

فإنه ما ضل أحد إلا على علم، فإن بيان الحق ليس بعده بيان، ولا فائدة للبيان إلا حصول العلم، ثم يستره العالم به عن نفسه، لغرض يقوم له، فتقوم الحجة لله عليه.

فالإلهام إعلام إلهي؛ فمن زكى نفسه بالتقوى، فاتقى من الفجور ما ينبغي أن يتقى منه، وأخذ منه ما ينبغي أن يؤخذ منه؛ ومن دس نفسه في موضع قيل له لا تدخل منه، فقد خاب.

(حفظ الميزان في كل حال)

فمن أراد طريق العلم والسعادة، فلا يضع ميزان الشرع من يده نفسا واحدا، فإن الله بيده الميزان لا يضعه، يخفض القسط ويرفعه، وهو ما هو الوجود عليه من الأحوال.

فلو وضع الحق الميزان من يده، لفني العالم دفعة واحدة عند هٰذا الوضع.

وكذٰلك ينبغي للمكلف، بل للإنسان أن لا يضع الميزان المشروع من يده، ما دام مكلفا، لأنه إن وضعه من يده نفسا واحدا فنى الشرع كله، كما فنى العالم لو وضع الحق الميزان من يده.

فإن كل حركة في المكلف ومن المكلف،

argument for God against the servant.

Rather, this verse resembles His saying, ‘We guided him to the two highroads’ [al-Balad 90:10]: that is, We clarified the two paths to him. He said, ‘We guided him to the way’ [al-Insān 76:3]: that is, We clarified it to him—‘whether thankful,’ so that he acts along the way according to its requirement, abstaining if it is a prohibition and acting if it is a command, ‘or ungrateful.’ He means that he conceals it from himself: thus they deceive themselves.

No one goes astray except upon knowledge. No clarification lies beyond the Real's clarification, and clarification has no benefit except the attainment of knowledge. Then the one who knows it veils it from himself because of an aim that arises for him, so God's argument against him is established.

Inspiration is thus divine instruction. Whoever purifies his soul through wariness thereby guards against whatever of wickedness should be guarded against and takes from it whatever should be taken. Whoever buries his soul in a place concerning which he was told, ‘Do not enter through it,’ has failed.

(Keeping the Balance in Every State)

Whoever desires the path of knowledge and felicity must not put the balance of the Revealed Law down from his hand for a single breath. God has the balance in His hand and does not put it down; He lowers and raises the measure of equity, which is the states in which existence stands.

Were the Real to put the balance down from His hand, the world would vanish all at once when He put it down.

Likewise, the legally responsible person—indeed, the human being—should not put the legislated balance down from his hand for as long as he remains legally responsible. For if he put it down for a single breath, the whole Revealed Law would vanish, just as the world would vanish if the Real put the balance down from His hand.

For every movement within and proceeding from the legally responsible person,