Allah is our Lord and your Lord.’” (Surah al-Shūrā, 15)

This is also the state of the Muslim community regarding the doctrines and acts of worship over which it has become divided and differed.

These matters greatly intensify the believers’ ordeal, for they need two things: to ward off from themselves the religious and worldly trials that have afflicted their peers, even while the factors giving rise to those trials remain present. For they, too, have souls and devils, just as others do.

When such trials occur among their peers, the factors drawing them toward those trials grow stronger—as indeed happens—and the impulse within a person’s soul and his devil becomes stronger. The same applies to impulses toward good and to the motivation arising from the actions of others and one’s peers.

How many people had no intention of either good or evil until they saw someone else