admonition﴾ [al-Naḥl 16:125], like what we have mentioned. It is our counsel to God's servants, combining wisdom—because we have set it in its proper place—with judgment. The wise person sets an affair in its proper place and does not take it beyond its rank.
(Admonition Arising from Witnessing)
Good admonition is that which, for the one reminding through it, arises from witnessing. Excellence is to worship God as though you see Him. How, then, with one who has realized that he sees Him? That is greater and more excellent.
(Cooperation in Standing for God)
His saying ﴿in pairs﴾ [Sabaʾ 34:46] may intend cooperation in standing for God, exalted is He, concerning that affair. The form of cooperation is that the Revealed Law has in fact condemned this act of the one from whom it proceeded. The believing knower should therefore stand alongside the Law concerning it, assisting it. They are thus two: he and the Law.
﴿And singly﴾ [Sabaʾ 34:46] means that this objector does not know that in his condemnation and admonition he assists the Law. He says, ‘I am alone in this affair,’ although he is only assisting the Law.
He also assists the angel who says through his prompting to the doer, ‘Do not do it,’ when Satan says through his prompting, ‘Do it.’ He is thus paired with the angel. The angel is charged to forbid the servant whom God has bound him to forbid, concerning what God has charged him to forbid him. The human being helps him in this, becoming one of those who stands for God in pairs concerning it.
He may also assist the Lawgiver, the Messenger, peace be upon him, who first condemned this act of its doer and preceded him in admonishing
