The Meccan Revelations: Page 273 from Volume One

Know, may God support you with the Holy Spirit, that the men of this chapter are the ascetics whose piety was the reason for their asceticism, and that is because the people were greedy of gain, in the strictest manner possible from the commandments of the Sharia, so whenever something occurred to them in their souls, they abandoned it, acting according to

> His saying, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, “Leave what doubts you for what does not doubt you ”

And his saying: “Consult your heart ”

And some of them said, “I have not seen anything easier for me than piety.” Everything that moved me about something I abandoned. Until God gave them signs by which they knew what was permissible from what was forbidden in restaurants and other things, until they rose from the signs to breaking their customs in the thing they were hesitant about, so they used it, so those who had no knowledge of that thought that they had committed what was forbidden, but it was