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وهُوَ يَهْدِي السَّبِيلَ﴾ [الأحزاب: ٤].

الباب السادس والعشرون وخمسمائة في معرفة حال قطب كان منزله ﴿ولَوْ لا أَنْ ثَبَّتْناكَ لَقَدْ كِدْتَ تَرْكَنُ إِلَيْهِمْ شَيْئاً قَلِيلًا﴾ [الإسراء: ٧٤]

إن الركون إلى الأغيار حرمان

في الدين وهو ركون فيه خسران

ناط العذاب به شرع يحققه

ضعفين قلبي وإيمان وإحسان

هٰذا لمن قد رأى في ذاك مصلحة

فكيف من حاله زور وبهتان

الله يعلم أني لا أقول به

ولو تقطع أوصال وأركان

والله ما كان ذاك الحكم إلا لنا

كالشك والشرك يقضي فيه برهان

بأن قائله ذو عصمة وله

على الذي قاله في الله سلطان

and He guides the way﴾ [al-Aḥzāb 33:4].

Chapter Five Hundred and Twenty-Six: On Knowing the State of a Pole Whose Abode Was ﴿Had We not made you firm, you would almost have inclined toward them a little﴾ [al-Isrāʾ 17:74]

Inclining toward others is deprivation

Within religion, an inclination containing loss.

The Revealed Law attached torment to it, confirmed

As twofold by my heart, faith, and excellence.

This is for one who saw a benefit in it:

How, then, for one whose state is falsehood and slander?

God knows that I do not affirm it,

Even if limbs and supports are cut apart.

By God, that ruling was for none but us,

Like doubt and association; proof judges concerning it

That its speaker possesses infallibility and has

Authority for what he has said concerning God.