—namely, the passions—and can only prefer the desired goal to them through one of two motives: either a clinging love or an unsettling fear…’ (p. 29).
In manuscripts B and C the reading is: ‘…either an unsettling love…’.
Ibn al-Qayyim said in Rawdat al-Muhibbin (1): ‘The heart furthest from Allah is the hardened heart, and nothing removes its hardness except an unsettling love or a disturbing fear.’
He also said in al-Daʾ wa al-Dawāʾ (2): ‘The second path that prevents the heart from becoming attached to the practice of the people of Lot is to occupy the heart with something that repels it from that act and bars it from falling into it—namely, either a disquieting fear or a disturbing love.’
- In the treatise it says: ‘Allah—glorified be He—has purchased the lives of the believers and appointed His Paradise as their price, and He concluded this contract at the hand of His Messenger, His intimate friend, the choicest of His creation… How can a rational person squander it, neglect it, and sell it for a paltry price? Is this not the most flagrant loss on the Day of Mutual Loss and Gain?’ (pp. 31–32).
Ibn al-Qayyim said in Madārij al-Sālikīn (3): ‘When they recognized the greatness of the Purchaser, the excellence of the price, and the majesty of the one by whose hand the contract of sale was struck, they realized the worth of the commodity and its momentous import, and thus deemed it one of the gravest forms of loss to sell it…’