That is why the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, wrote a line and wrote lines on both sides of that line, so that line was his law and method with which he was sent, and it was said to him, “Tell your nation to follow it and not depart from it.” And those lines were the laws of the prophets that preceded him and the laws of wisdom that were established. Then he put his hand on the line. He recited, “This is my path, straight,” so he added it to it. He did not say “God’s path,” and described it as straight. He did not mention those lines, but rather remained silent about them. Then he said, “So follow him.” The pronoun refers to his path, and do not follow the paths. He means the laws of those who preceded him and their approaches insofar as they are laws for them, unless a ruling from them is found in a law, then follow it. In terms of what it is a law for us, not in terms of what it was a law for them, so he separated you from his path, meaning those laws