Reading from the author's words with commentary on them and collating the manuscripts: "The sixth aspect: Among what they do in their festival is what is disbelief
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The reader: "The sixth aspect: Among what they do in their festival is what is disbelief, what is forbidden, and what is permissible if it were free from the harm of imitation. Then, distinguishing between these categories is usually apparent, though it may be hidden from many of the common people. So, imitating them in matters whose prohibition is not apparent to the scholar leads the common person to imitate them in what is forbidden, and this is the reality. The difference between this aspect and the aspect of blocking the means is that there we said: agreement in the little leads to agreement in the much. Here, the general type of agreement confuses the religion of the common people, so that they do not distinguish between what is right and what is wrong. That is an explanation of the implication from the side of the nature of the instincts demanding it by their will, and this is from the side of the ignorance of the hearts regarding their beliefs."
The Shaykh : Correct. That is, perhaps in these festivals of theirs there is what is disbelief, what is disobedience, and what is below that. And this last, the third, the least of it is what? Imitation. And the common person does not distinguish between what is disbelief, what is disobedience, or what is imitation. So the person remains ignorant of what leads to disbelief if we imitate them in it, for example, or what leads to disobedience. Unlike blocking the means, where the means lead to what is forbidden. But this is confusion between what is forbidden and what is lawful, even though the lawful has a harm in it, which is imitation. Yes.
The reader: "The seventh aspect: What I established in the aspect of the origin of imitation"
The Shaykh : In the origin, in the origin of imitation.
The reader: No, in the aspect. He said in my opinion.
The Shaykh : In the origin.
The reader: He said in the marginal note: "The aspect dropped from the copy of Alif."
The Shaykh : Okay, that works.
The reader: "What I established in the aspect of the origin of imitation, and that is that Allah the Exalted created the children of Adam, indeed all creation,"
The Shaykh : All creation.
The reader: "Created the children of Adam, indeed all creation, with interaction between two similar things. And the more the similarity is, the more complete the interaction is in morals and attributes, until the matter ends up with no distinction."
The Shaykh : Correct. That is, perhaps in these festivals of theirs there is what is disbelief, what is disobedience, and what is below that. And this last, the third, the least of it is what? Imitation. And the common person does not distinguish between what is disbelief, what is disobedience, or what is imitation. So the person remains ignorant of what leads to disbelief if we imitate them in it, for example, or what leads to disobedience. Unlike blocking the means, where the means lead to what is forbidden. But this is confusion between what is forbidden and what is lawful, even though the lawful has a harm in it, which is imitation. Yes.
The reader: "The seventh aspect: What I established in the aspect of the origin of imitation"
The Shaykh : In the origin, in the origin of imitation.
The reader: No, in the aspect. He said in my opinion.
The Shaykh : In the origin.
The reader: He said in the marginal note: "The aspect dropped from the copy of Alif."
The Shaykh : Okay, that works.
The reader: "What I established in the aspect of the origin of imitation, and that is that Allah the Exalted created the children of Adam, indeed all creation,"
The Shaykh : All creation.
The reader: "Created the children of Adam, indeed all creation, with interaction between two similar things. And the more the similarity is, the more complete the interaction is in morals and attributes, until the matter ends up with no distinction."