The Fourth:
The inclination to expand is present within a body for its growth and development. And, since it is from within, the inclination to expand leads to the perfection of the body. Whereas if it were from outside it, it would rip the body’s skin; it would destroy it; it would not expand it. In the same way, when the inclination to expand and will to interpret the law were present in those people who were within the sphere of Islam by way of the door of perfect taqwa and the path of conforming to the essential teachings of Islam, like the righteous early generations, it was a perfection and a being perfected. But if such an inclination and desire are present in those who give up the essentials, prefer the life of this world to that of the hereafter, and are tainted with materialist philosophy, it is instrumental in destroying the body of Islam and casting off the chain of the Shari‘a from the neck.