Allāh loves and is pleased with and what Allāh has decreed and ordained. Rather, they look at the absolute, encompassing will, and then ultimately do not distinguish between the Creator and the created, but rather make the existence of this the existence of that. And their scholars say: In the sharīʿah, there is obedience and disobedience, and in reality, there is disobedience without obedience, and in realization, there is neither obedience nor disobedience. And this is the realization of the doctrine of Pharaoh and his people who denied the Creator and denied His speaking to His servant Mūsá and what He sent him with of command and prohibition. As for Ibrāhīm and the family of Ibrāhīm, the monotheists among the prophets and the believers in them, they know that there must be a distinction between the Creator and the created, and there must be a distinction between obedience and disobedience, and that the servant, the more he realizes this distinction, the more his love for Allāh, his servitude to Him, his obedience to Him, and his turning away from worshiping others, loving others, and obeying others increases. And these misguided polytheists equate Allāh with His creation, while the friend [of Allāh] says (al-Shuʿarāʾ 75-77): "Have you seen what you have been worshiping * You and your ancient forefathers * They are enemies to me, except for the Lord of the worlds." And they cling to the ambiguous from the words of the shaykhs, as the Christians did. An example of this is the term (annihilation), for it...

A type for the perfect ones among the prophets and the saints. And a type for the seekers among the saints and the righteous. And a type for the hypocritical, heretical imitators. As for the first: it is the annihilation from the will of anything other than Allāh, such that there is no..