and without reckoning, consisting of delightful and painful things in this world and the Hereafter. He created us and created within us those who seek delightful recompense and naturally shrink from painful recompense.
(The Rational Soul and Its Subjects)
He established a right for me and a due upon me concerning my subjects. He created for me a rational soul that governs, understands, thinks, and is prepared to receive everything with which He charged it. It is the locus of His address, intended by His obligation, the fulfillment of His commands and prohibitions, and stopping at His limits and ordinances wherever He has set limits and prescribed regarding the right of the Real, the right of the self, and the right of others.
The possessors of rights demand their rights from him, in speech and state, outwardly and inwardly. Hearing demands its right, as do sight, tongue, hands, belly, genitals, feet, heart, intellect, thought, the vegetative, animal, irascible, and appetitive souls[50], greed, expectancy, fear, hope, Islam, faith, excellence, and their like from his world connected to him.
The Real commanded him first not to be heedless of any of these and to employ them within the domains the Real specified for him. He made all these faculties turn toward this rational soul to demand their rights. He made them all speak God’s glorification through an intrinsic constitution they never leave, and made these rights which they claim upon the rational soul
Notes
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(The previous copy read الغصبية; it was corrected to الغضبية, ‘irascible,’ by comparison with the new edition, volume 10, page 460.)
