Inspiring quotes from the Meccan Revelations (... more)
[ The wise person should not feel safe from God’s deception in His blessings .]
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The wise person should not feel safe from God’s deception in His blessings, for the deception in it is hidden from him in calamity, and the lowest deception in it is if he sees himself as deserving of that blessing and that it was created for him, then God has no need of it, for it is mine by virtue of entitlement. This is the lowest deception that knowledge gives, and the one who does it is called a knower. Among the common people, while he is ignorant among the knowers, since we have shown before that things were created for Him, the Almighty, to glorify His praise, and our benefit from them was due to the rule of dependence, not the first intention, so the whole world broke its fast to glorify Him by praising Him and worshiping Him, and He called the people of great importance to that and knew that for this reason He created them, not for themselves or for any of the creatures. With what exists in existence of the occurrence of benefiting from one another, God Almighty said in

