Chapter on Ghurra Through Waraʿ in Food and Clothing

Chapter on Delusion Regarding Waraʿ (Scrupulous Piety) in Food and Dress

To the exclusion of all other matters in its outward and inward aspects.

Among them is a group that does not see that what is obligatory upon it in its time of waraʿ is anything other than waraʿ in its nourishment — in food and dress.

So it looked and settled its souls upon it, thinking that it had reached the most difficult degrees of waraʿ and the most esteemed of it in its time, and that it had perfected taqwā (God-consciousness) and established it. Thus the greater part of waraʿ was obscured from it — that which is incumbent upon it in their hearts and their limbs.

I said: How do you dispel that?

He said: By knowing that God, exalted and majestic, is not pleased with the ḥalāl (lawful) alone, and that He may punish one whose food is wholesome if he does not fear God, exalted and majestic, in other matters, and that He may be angered by what one says, or harbors inwardly, or listens to, or steps toward, or strikes.

When it knows that, its delusion is removed from it.

Chapter on Delusion Regarding Seclusion and Fleeing from People

And a group upon which the sense of shame before the Fire and solitude has predominated, yet along with that it affects ostentation in its fleeing, and loves to become renowned for it. Hearts among the common people find ease at the mention of that concerning it, while it endures that from them. Admiring its own acts, while the greater part of its sins has been obscured from it, it counts itself as being intimate with God, exalted and majestic, and estranged from His creation.

He said: It should reflect upon the greatness of the right of God, exalted and majestic, the obligation of obedience to Him, and the abundance in number of what is required of it in avoiding what God, exalted and majestic, detests and has prohibited in its outward and inward dimensions — has it reckoned all of that?