he Most High, whose trace is in
every phenomenon. He[133] (extol we Him and exalt we Him!) is not apt
but to the ordering of justice and equity and beneficence, and He
created man for the love of Him and set in him a soul, wherein the
inclination to lusts was innate and assigned him capability and ableness
and appointed the Five Senses aforesaid to be to him a means of winning
Heaven or Hell.” (¿) “How so?”—“In that He created the Tongue for
speech, the Hands for action, the Feet for walking and the Eyes for
seeing and the Ears for hearing, and upon each bestowed especial power
and incited them to exercise and motion, bidding each of them do naught
save that which pleaseth Him. Now what pleaseth Him in Speech is
truthfulness and abstaining from its opposite, which is falsehood; and
what pleaseth Him in Sight is turning it unto that which He loveth and
leaving the contrary, which is turning it unto that which He hateth,
such as looking unto lusts: and what pleaseth Him in Hearing is
hearkening to naught but the True, such as admonition and that which is
in Allah’s writ and leaving the contrary, which is listening to that
which incurreth the anger of Allah; and what pleaseth Him in the Hands
is not hoarding up that which He entrusteth to them, but expending it in
such way as shall please Him and leaving the contrary, which is avarice
or spending in sinfulness that which He hath committed to them; and what
pleaseth Him in the Feet is that they be constant in the pursuit of
good, such as the quest of instruction, and leave its contrary, which is
the walking in other than the way of Allah. Now respecting the rest of
the lusts which man practiseth, they proceed from the body by command of
the soul. But the lusts which proceed from the body are of two kinds,
the lust of reproduction and the lust of the belly. As for the former,
that which pleaseth Allah thereof is that it be not other than
lawful[134] and He is displeased with it if contrary to His law. As for
the lust of the belly, eating and drinking, wha