for such reliance betrays the one relying, through being attached to one without fixity. One relies upon an originated thing only through unveiling and divine notification. Our reliance then rests upon one described by fixity, as we rely upon revealed laws concerning what faith must affirm. Without divine notification through the signs He manifested of His truthfulness, we would not remain fixed upon this, just as we do not adhere to a ruling with the fixity of one who never moves from it, because abrogation is possible.
(Abrogation and the End of a Ruling’s Duration)
All this is revealed law in which faith is obligatory. Since abrogation signifies the end of a ruling’s duration, another ruling follows it. The first did not change into something else; it ended because its duration ended, having been linked from the outset to a determined duration known by God, even if unknown to us. We rely upon no originated customary cause except through notification from God that its ruling remains fixed, as with faith, with which felicity is fixed, so we rely upon it.
We say felicity is linked to faith in God and what comes from Him, through the Real’s informing us. One cannot rely upon faith’s continuance within the person one sees as a believer. An accidental affair may arise within him, coming between him and the faith that gives felicity. Felicity departs from him through faith’s departure. Knowledge is different: knowledge has fixity and heedlessness does not affect it, for the knower need not remain present with his knowledge in every
