Inspiring quotes from the Meccan Revelations (... more)
[ Knowledge gives work behind a thin veil ]
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Know that knowledge gives action behind a thin veil. In another hadith on the authority of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, regarding the adulterer, if he commits adultery, faith departs from him until it becomes like a shadow over him.
We have a good interpretation of it, which is that the adulterer has been exposed to affliction. From God descends on him, and faith comes out until it becomes over him like a canopy, preventing that affliction from descending on him if it descends. Do not neglect, O my guardian, this fate that I have warned you about. Do you not see that God Almighty did not establish verses and multiply them except to obtain knowledge through them, because He knows that if knowledge is acquired, action is necessary. Do you not see? To the one who drinks the medicine, and he does what he drinks and swallows its bitterness except because he knows that there is a medicine that removes this ailment that he suffers from, and he says