The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ Gluttony and greed are two traits in human beings .]

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FUTMAK.COM الفتوحات المكية: الصفحة 198 من الجزء Two

Know, may God help you, that these two qualities are innate to man insofar as he is human, and everything that man is innate to, it is impossible for him to disappear, for it is a position without a state, for it is fixed, and rebuke refers to it from a related aspect, if it is reprehensible according to law and reason. God Almighty said, “And you will find them the most eager of people for life.” And He said May God’s prayers and peace be upon him. May God increase your eagerness and do not exceed it .

The verse is directed at both sides of praise and blame, if it were not for the pronoun that is in his saying, “You will surely find them.” For it refers to a blameworthy people, and the presumption of the situation indicates that his intention in it is to be keen to criticize in order to deny them what they claim that the abode is The afterlife is purely for them, not for the people. So whoever considers the keenness here to be an indication of their lying will be praised


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