In the Name of God, the All-Merciful, the Compassionate.
Among this: whoever comes from above possesses taste, from Chapter 255.
“He is the One Who Subdues, above His servants” [al-Anʿam 6:18, 61]. His Throne’s ruling is within His bed. Knowledge of above is known only through taste, and belongs to one who upholds the Books and distinguishes ranks.
One who upholds them without distinguishing their markers[1] eats from beneath his foot, from what he knows with certainty comes from his foot.
This is the state of the scrupulous and obedient: they eat from their hands’ earnings. Thus they acquire only the knowledge they hear within their assembly. They teach one another and lend God a loan. These are the messengers’ followers and the people of paths.
The messengers are the people of collars, and theirs are the tastes. They possess insight, and those who follow them are like them in their claim: they follow the finest conduct.
They are within “Gardens and a River” [al-Qamar 54:54]: within concealment and expanse, because of the repose they possess, in “a seat of truth with a King, an Exerciser of Power” [al-Qamar 54:55], within an impregnable Presence inaccessible to the people of acquisition, belonging particularly to beloved ones.
Among this: whoever drinks rejoices, from Chapter 256.
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(The author contrasts acquired reception and hearing here with taste and insight. His following discussion of the drink connects with this contrast.)
