Carrying the message with purity in Surat al-A’raf
“It is a Book that We have revealed to you, so let not your heart be distressed by it,”
Desires
Wisdom, the balance between heart, mind, and knowledge
“Verily, it is not eyes that are blinded, but rather the hearts are blinded within their chests.”
The divine medium as the path to lasting reform
“Pharaoh fooled his people and they obeyed him. Verily, they were defiant sinners.”
Natural differences and moral development in Islam
“Were Allah not to check some people by means of others, the earth would have been corrupted.”
The path to wisdom in natural law
“The saying of wisdom is the lost property of the believer, so wherever he finds it then he has a right to it.”
Primacy of intellect and the trap of the senses
“Intellect is the only means through which monotheism can be truly practiced.”