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- Yet whoever is counted among the people of wretchedness pays no heed (1) to any command or prohibition, for the path of his misery has been smoothed for him (2).
- The servant has no escape from what the Almighty has decreed, yet within that decree he still chooses between good and evil.
(1) In ‘Uqud … and in Majmuʿ al-Fatawa the reading is: “lam yanl” (he did not attain it).
(2) The T and A editions read: “bi-taqdir” (by prior decree).
١١٦- ومن كان من أهل الشقاوة لم يُبَلْ (١) ... بأمر ولا نهي بتيسير (٢) شقوةِ
١١٧- ولا مخرجٌ للعبد عما به قضى ... ولكنه مختارُ حُسْنٍ وسوأة
(١) في عقود وهـ ومجموع الفتاوى: (لم ينل) .
(٢) في ط وأ: بتقدير.