the servants are filled with desire and fear so the management is consistent and the policy is straight because they agree with what is in the nature and they take into account the interests then he made most of his obedience in what the souls find burdensome and most of his disobedience in what they enjoy and for that reason the prophet may god bless him and grant him peace said paradise is surrounded by hardships and hellfire is surrounded by desires. he informs that the path to paradise is to endure hardships and the path to hellfire is to follow desires so if they were not fit for their creator and did not submit to his command except by what i have described to you of desire and fear then the most helpless of people in opinion and the most mistaken in management and the most ignorant of the resources and sources of matters is the one who hopes or thinks or hopes that someone from creation above or below him or his peers is fit for his conscience and it is correct for him or otherwise god has shown them righteousness in what is between him and them.
العباد بالرغبة والرهبة، فاطرد التدبير، واستقامت السياسة، لموافقتهما ما في الفطرة، وأخذهما بمجامع المصلحة، ثم جعل أكثر طاعته فيما تستثقل النفوس، وأكثر معصيته فيما تلذ، ولذلك قال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم حفت الجنة بالمكاره، والنار بالشهوات . يخبر أن الطريق إلى الجنة احتمال المكاره، والطريق إلى النار اتباع الشهوات، فإذا كانوا لم يصلحوا لخالقهم ولم ينقادوا لأمره إلا بما وصفت لك كم الرغبة والرهبة، فأعجز الناس رأيا وأخطؤهم تدبيرا، وأجهلهم بموارد الأمور ومصادرها، من أمل أو ظن أو رجا أن أن أحدا من الخلق فوقه أو دونه أو من نظرائه يصلح له ضميره، وصح له أو بخلاف ماد برهم الله عليه، فيما بينه وبينهم.