Commentary
And when the decree was made: he hastens in the effects of what he was created upon, what results from impatience of what is not permissible in the Law, and what results from the prohibition of that as well, so he will be among the people of the Fire. And it is from the ultimate power that He, glorified and exalted is He, preserves whom He wills from disgrace along with his nature, and carries him to break his ego time after time until what he has of the nature of evil fades away, and the soul remains in its original state at the first nature. So it continues to urge him to hasten to His obedience, glorified and exalted is He, and to preserve His limits. There is no honor greater than the preservation of the one obligated to the limits of the Law while opposing his nature. Thus, he will be combining faith with its two halves: patience and gratitude, for he has gathered from these eight attributes that oppose the eight gates of Paradise. So he became a cause for them. He excluded from this type the one who is excessively anxious. For this reason, he gathered and said: "Except for the prayerful ones," meaning those who are diligent in the prayer, which is the place of neediness, who are deeply rooted in this description. For their anxiety does not intensify, nor does their impatience or their prohibition. So they will be in the best form, balanced, hastening in what pleases the Lord. Because He, glorified and exalted is He, has associated what He created them upon from anxiety due to the purity of the body for the purity of its clay and the cleanliness of its soul with what He has prepared for the refinement of their souls from what He makes pleasing to them from the friends of goodness and the allies of kindness, and listening to good sermons, and distancing themselves from the sources of filth from places, companions, words, actions, and other than that from all conditions. And they are associated with everything that leads to the heights of good qualities until they are among the people of perfection. For this reason, He described them with what clarifies their nobility in the description of it, saying:
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