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{ وَمِنَ ٱلنَّاسِ مَن يَعْبُدُ ٱللَّهَ عَلَىٰ حَرْفٍ فَإِنْ أَصَابَهُ خَيْرٌ ٱطْمَأَنَّ بِهِ وَإِنْ أَصَابَتْهُ فِتْنَةٌ ٱنْقَلَبَ عَلَىٰ وَجْهِهِ خَسِرَ ٱلدُّنْيَا وَٱلأَخِرَةَ ذٰلِكَ هُوَ ٱلْخُسْرَانُ ٱلْمُبِينُ }

And among mankind there is the one who worships God, as it were, on a knife edge…The believer has one face, without a reverse side; he makes repeated [advances] and never retreats. You will see him striving for the cause of God’s religion and His obedience, upholding God’s oneness and the emulation of His Prophet , constantly making humble entreaty (taḍarruʿ) of God and seeking refuge in Him in the hope of connecting to Him through following [exemplaryguidance]. Zayd b. Aslam related from the Prophet that he said: ‘Every person of my nation (umma) will enter Paradise, save the one who refuses.’ We said, ‘O Messenger of God who will refuse that?’ He said, ‘Whoever obeys me will enter Paradise, and whoever disobeys me has refused to enter Paradise.’ His words, Exalted is He:

…if good [fortune] befalls him, he is reassured by it…That is, whoever follows [his] desire, if his heart is satisfied and his lower self is happy in its worldly share, he will feel reassured by it. Otherwise he will return to the disbelief that his desire calls him to. His words:

Tafsīr al-Tustarī, trans. Annabel Keeler and Ali Keeler
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