Of the branding levelled at worshippers of the Al Mighty is that they are ‘backward’, incapable of intellectualising, ‘brought up to accept’ a Deity or forcefully separated from their own cognition. But in a world that demands a beginning to everything; a world that rejects ‘infinite regression’; one that renders…
After declaring that had He wished He could blind and deform them, Abū Hayyan explains how Allāh turns their attention to a sign that points to the truth of this declaration. Growing into old age. For, every one of them, if not deformed or rendered incapable, will inevitably, regress after…
Generally, one sins to satisfy his desires and to gratify his exterior limbs. Then on the Day of Judgement, man’s entire ordeal is to protect them from the smouldering fire. He will, for them, even lie to dispute his case before the Almighty. But gone are the days when lying…
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