He, however, who denied God
in His Truth, who turned his back upon Him and rebelled, who disbelieved and
made mischief, the verdict of “impiety”, “blasphemy”, “death”, and “fire” was
passed upon him. For, what blasphemy is greater than to turn unto the manifestations
of Satan, to follow the doctors of oblivion and the people of rebellion? What
impiety is more grievous than to deny the Lord on the day when faith itself is
renewed and regenerated by God, the Almighty, the Beneficent? What death is
more wretched than to flee from the Source of everlasting life? What fire is
fiercer on the Day of Reckoning than that of remoteness from the divine Beauty
and the celestial Glory?
