were it not for the trial and ordeal in forbidding what was forbidden and permitting what was permitted and freeing children from the suspicion of sharing in them and the inheritances being in the hands of descendants no one would have been more entitled to one of them than another just as some livestock are not more entitled to graze the cloud sites than others. the matter would have been as the magi said the man has the closest relative and the closest cause of kinship among them. however the assumption was made by testing so the absolute was specified as was done with the crops for they are pasture for the children of adam and for all animals except what was forbidden by the prohibition.
ولولا المحنة والبلوى في تحريم ما حرم وتحليل ما أحل، وتخليص المواليد من شبهات الاشتراك فيها، وحصول المواريث في أيدي الأعقاب، لم يكن واحد أحق بواحدة منهن من الآخر، كما ليس بعض السوام أحق برعي مواقع السحاب من بعض، ولكان الأمر كما قالت المجوس إن للرجل الأقرب فالأقرب إليه رحما وسببا منهن. إلا أن الفرض وقع بالامتحان فخص المطلق، كما فعل بالزرع فإنه مرعى لولد آدم ولسائر الحيوان إلا ما منع منه التحريم.