Inspiring quotes from the Meccan Revelations (... more)
[ Dignity must be the result of integrity ]
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Then, if we assume it to be a virtue, it must be the result of integrity or result in integrity, otherwise it is not a dignity. And if dignity is the result of integrity, God may make it the share of your work and the reward for your action. If you apply it to Him, He can hold you accountable for it and what we have mentioned of the miracles. Moral matters do not include anything of what we have mentioned, for knowledge accompanies it, and the power and honor of knowledge gives you that deception does not enter it. The legal limits do not set up a barrier to divine deception, for they are the clear path to attaining happiness. Knowledge protects you from being astonished by your work, for knowledge is part of His honor in that it uses you, and if it uses you, it strips you of it. He added That is to God, and I inform you that with His success and guidance, what appears from you is obedience to Him and preservation of His limits. If something of the common people’s virtues appears