they make determinism and the affirmation of divine decree a barrier to obligation in this manner. And groups among those who claim realization, knowledge, and tawḥīd have fallen into this. The reason for this is that their understanding is too narrow to accept that a servant is commanded with what its opposite is decreed, just as the understanding of the Muʿtazilah and similar Qadariyyah is too narrow for that. Then the Muʿtazilah affirmed the legal commands and prohibitions without the divine decree and predestination, which are Allāh’s general will and His creation of the actions of the servants. And these individuals affirmed the divine decree and predestination and denied the command and prohibition for those who witness the decree, as they could not deny it entirely. The statement of these individuals is worse than that of the Muʿtazilah, and for this reason, none of these individuals were among the predecessors. These individuals make the command and prohibition for those who are veiled, who have not witnessed this cosmic reality, and for this reason, they claim that whoever reaches witnessing this reality is exempt from command and prohibition, and they say: he has become one of the elite. They might interpret in this way His saying, the Exalted (Sūrah al-Ḥijr, 99): ﴿And worship your Lord until certainty comes to you﴾, where certainty for them is the knowledge of this reality. The statement of these individuals is explicit disbelief, even if groups fell into it without knowing it is disbelief, for it is necessarily known from the religion of Islam that command and prohibition are obligatory for every servant as long as his mind is present until he dies