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Or, it returns to the benefit of the worshipper which is again impossible, because he has no current
desire. Because of obedience, he becomes tired and refrains from lower appetites.
While there is nothing in the future except reward and punishment. So, how then, can he know that
Allah - the High - rewards the disobedient and the obedient and does not punish both of them because
both are equal concerning (their having an affect on) Him. Because He is inclined to neither, but we
know all these characteristics from the Religion. While he who arrives at it through drawing an
analogy
between the Creator and the creature errs, as the creature distinguishes between gratitude and
ingratitude on the basis of the amount of joy, gladness, and pleasure which he derives from the
one or
the other. If it is said that if examination and knowledge are not obligatory except through the
Religion
which does not become defined unless the person who is required to fulfill its obligations examines
it,
and if that person should say to the Prophet - the praise and peace be upon him - that reason
does not
obligated him to examine while the Religion is not confirmed except through examination, and
desire. Because of obedience, he becomes tired and refrains from lower appetites.
While there is nothing in the future except reward and punishment. So, how then, can he know that
Allah - the High - rewards the disobedient and the obedient and does not punish both of them because
both are equal concerning (their having an affect on) Him. Because He is inclined to neither, but we
know all these characteristics from the Religion. While he who arrives at it through drawing an
analogy
between the Creator and the creature errs, as the creature distinguishes between gratitude and
ingratitude on the basis of the amount of joy, gladness, and pleasure which he derives from the
one or
the other. If it is said that if examination and knowledge are not obligatory except through the
Religion
which does not become defined unless the person who is required to fulfill its obligations examines
it,
and if that person should say to the Prophet - the praise and peace be upon him - that reason
does not
obligated him to examine while the Religion is not confirmed except through examination, and