The custom in the ancient days was that the prisoners were put in fetters and shackles and taken out daily to go about the streets begging food | The inception of human creation takes place with the sperm that is produced by food |
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That is, it will not be camphor-mixed water but a natural fountain, the purity, coolness and agreeable odor of its water will resemble camphor | Again the whole food was given away to him |
Allah has created man to put him to a test.
The interrogative sentence in the verse before us illustrates this last meaning | Imam Malik says that he should give away one third of his possessions, and Sahnun from among the Malikis has expressed the opinion that he should give away so much of his possessions as does not subject him to hardship later |
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Allah did not find this difficult the first time |
So much so that even those people who for the satisfaction of their selfish motives and desires have invented philosophies by which they have justified many evils for themselves, protest loudly when they are themselves treated with the same evils by others, and then it becomes known that in spite of their false philosophies they actually regard them as evil.
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