The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ Stop when the lawgiver tells you to stop, for that is divine etiquette ]

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And if the matter is as we mentioned, then he should not be ashamed, then there is no shame or judgment for him. Rather, he gives proverbs, establishes forms, and teaches to whom he addresses and who understands from whom he does not understand, and for every understanding. If the listener found something more hidden than a mosquito, he would bring it as he has mentioned it in a nutshell with his saying and what is above it. So He commanded and taught you in this verse that you should not leave anything without attributing it to God, and that the insignificance of that thing nor the blameworthiness attached to it, according to custom and law, should not prevent you in your contract. Then you should stop at generality, so do not apply what is in the contract to everything, nor in any case stop at Whatever the Lawgiver tells you, stand by it, for that is the divine etiquette brought by the Sharia, and etiquette is the intercourse of goodness, and in the use of words, modesty is used


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