The Bee
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[16:47]
or take them to task through slow decay?
And yet, behold, your Sustainer is most compassionate, a dispenser of grace!

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* v.47 : One of the meanings of takhawwuf is “gradual diminution” or “decay” or “slow destruction” (Lisān al-‘Arab, art. khawafa; thus also Tabarī and Zamakhsharī); in the above context, the term has obviously both a social and a moral connotation: a gradual disintegration of all ethical values, of power, or civic cohesion, of happiness, and, finally, of life itself.
* Sc., “seeing that He offers you guidance through His prophets, and gives you time to reflect and mend your ways before you do irreparable harm to yourselves.”