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We also believe that servitude to Allah remains binding upon every servant for as long as he possesses reason and understands what is owed to him and what is required of him, judging matters in proportion to the strength and capacity granted to him. This obligation was never lifted from the prophets, the eminently truthful, the martyrs, or the righteous. Whoever claims that he has slipped out of the yoke of servitude into the open expanse of freedom—abrogating servitude altogether and passing into what he calls the rulings of absolute oneness,
ونعتقد: أن العبودية لا تسقط عن العبد ما عقل وعلم ما له وما عليه مميز على أحكام القوة والاستطاعة، إذ لم يسقط ذلك عن الأنبياء والصديقين والشهداء والصالحين، ومن زعم أنه قد خرج من رق العبودية إلى فضاء الحرية بإسقاط العبودية والخروج إلى أحكام الأحدية