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3070-3079

  • Otherwise, how have you chosen that (particular) handicraft out of all the rest, O master of the house? 3070
  • When the hour comes for the flesh and the passions (to be indulged), there comes to you as great a power of choice as is possessed by twenty men;
  • When your friend deprives you of a farthing of profit, the power to pick a quarrel (with him) is (at once) developed in your soul;
  • (But) when the hour comes for thanksgiving on account of (God's) benefactions, you have no power of choice and are inferior to a stone.
  • Assuredly this will be the excuse of your Hell, (namely), ‘Consider me excused for this burning!’
  • Since no one holds you excusable on this plea, and (since) this (plea) does not keep you out of the hands of the executioner, 3075
  • (Clearly), then, the (present) world is arranged according to this rule, and the state of things in yonder world too is made known to you.
  • Another Story in answer to the Necessitarian, confirming (Man's) power of choice and the validity of the (Divine) commands and prohibitions, and showing that the Necessitarian's excuse is not accepted in any religious sect or in any religion and that it does not save him from being duly punished for the (sinful) actions which he has committed, just as the Necessitarian Iblís was not saved (from punishment) by saying (to God), ‘Because Thou hast made me to err.’ And the little indicates the much.
  • A certain man was climbing up a tree and vigorously scattering the fruit in the manner of thieves.
  • The owner of the orchard came along and said (to him), ‘O rascal, where is your reverence for God? What are you doing?’
  • He replied, ‘If a servant of God eat from God's orchard the dates which God has bestowed upon him as a gift,