And whatever verse We abrogate or postpone We bring [in place] a better or the like of it; do you not know that God has power over all thingsḍ Abrogation naskh is the removal of something; that is [it is] what moves you from one state to that which is above and superior to it for the branch of your communion is forever flourishing and the star of your nobility is forever shining. “We do not abrogate anything of the traces of worship ʿibāda without substituting for it something from the lights of servant- hood ʿubūdiyya. And We do not abrogate anything from the lights of servanthood without putting something in its place from the moons of servitude ʿubūda.Your innermost self is always rising taraqqā and your worth increases [when you take on] the beauty of the [divine] friend- ship tawallā.” It is said “We will not raise you from the place of servanthood ʿubūdiyya without causing you to alight on the plains of freedom ḥurriyya. We have not removed anything of your human attributes ṣifāt al-bashariyya without elevating you in some divine witnessing shawāhid al-ulūhiyya.”
