in a fine form.’ If the deeds were pure, you see them as pure. Likewise, evil deeds come to the person who committed them, say something similar to him, and announce to him Allah’s punishment.”

He said: “The deeds of the two were simply prayer, zakāh, fasting, and similar righteous deeds in the case of one, and fornication, usury, unlawful killing, and similar sins in the case of the other. These deeds have faded away and ceased to exist in this world. By His power, Allah gives their reward and punishment a form for the believer and the evildoer, and announces it to them, as an honour to the believers and a source of anguish for the disbelievers. This meaning is clearer than the sun. You have understood this, if Allah Most High wills, but you resort to sophistry and deception. You bear your own burdens of sin and the burdens of those whom you lead astray.”

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