and this worship is what Allāh loves and is pleased with, and through it, He described the chosen ones among His servants and sent His messengers. As for the servant in the sense of being subjugated, whether he acknowledges it or denies it, this meaning is shared by both the believer and the disbeliever. By distinguishing between these two types, one understands the difference between the religious truths involved in the worship of Allāh, His religion, and His legal command, which He loves and is pleased with, and supports its adherents and honors them with His Paradise, and the universal truths shared by the believer and the disbeliever, the righteous and the wicked. Those who are content with the latter and do not follow the religious truths are among the followers of the accursed Iblīs and the disbelievers in the Lord of the worlds. And whoever is content with it in some matters but not others, or in one state [but not another], or in one condition [but not another], his faith and allegiance to Allāh decrease according to what he lacks of the religious truths. This is a great position in which many have erred, and confusion has abounded among the seekers, to the extent that even some of the greatest shaykhs claiming realization, tawḥīd, and knowledge have slipped in it, and none can enumerate them except Allāh, who knows the secret and the manifest. To this, Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir (may Allāh have mercy on him) alluded in what is reported from him, clarifying that many of the men, when they reach the decree..