The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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FUTMAK.COM الفتوحات المكية: الصفحة 482 من الجزء Two

Know that exercise among the people is one of the conditions, and it is of two types: the sport of manners and the sport of pursuit .

So the sport of manners is

For them, it is a departure from the nature of the soul.

And the sport of pursuit is

It is the correctness of what is meant by it. I mean by request.

And with us, exercise is the refinement of morals, for departing from the nature of the soul is not valid, and since it is not valid, God has shown that this nature has consequences, so if the souls stop there, they praise and thank and do not depart from that. Regarding its nature, its exercise is limited to the conditions that its Creator has appointed for it, for the essence of a dispositional thing is nothing other than its disposition. If a thing were to deviate from its nature, it would not be it. This is why the statement of the one who said the exercise of request is the correctness of what is meant by it, for if a thing is


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