Your Obedience or Sin is Only for You [Hikam 211]

Published: Feb. 25, 2021, 10:03 a.m.

"Your obedience does not benefit Him, and your disobedience does not harm Him. It is only for your own good that He commanded the one and prohibited the other". [211]\n\nThe aphorism discussed in this talk mirrors perfectly the Qur'anic verse: "Whoever practises righteousness it is for himself; and whoever sins, it is on himself..." (Surah al-Jathiyah)