Inspiring quotes from the Meccan Revelations (... more)
As for what is permissible, the power of Satan is specific, and he has no dispute except the self. Rather, it is permissible for the soul to the exclusion of anyone else, because it has the ability to bring benefits and repel harm, and the command always takes precedence over the prohibition in the power of the king and the devil. The one who commands evil is Satan, so he has precedence, and the one who commands goodness is only the king. He has precedence, so no prohibition can be returned except after a command, and there is no reversal in such a thing in this presence, and its origin in man is from Adam, peace be upon him, for the command preceded him to live in Paradise and eat from it wherever he wished, then he forbade him from approaching a tree referred to if he approached it, then the prohibition occurred, and the prohibition in his saying “Where you wish, not in Eating was not forbidden from eating, but rather from proximity to it, which he had released wherever you want


