The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 287
Salvation 287 word means to incline away and to move away from the centre. It acquired the connotation of sin, inasmuch as by turning away a person leaves the spot where Divine light falls and moving away from it puts himself at a distance from the light that can be obtained in the original position. In the same way Juram (crime), which also connotes sin, means cutting asunder. Thus an offender cuts asunder all his relationship with God. Juram is thus more serious than Junāḥ, for the latter merely means a wrong inclination, but the former signifies that a person deliberately commits an offence by breaking God's law and being heedless of any relationship with Him. . That being the reality of true purity, the question arises whether those lights which a person loses through his love of darkness can be acquired by believing in the crucifixion of anyone. The answer is that such a notion is false. The truth is that for the acquiring of those lights it is the eternal law that we should open the windows that face the true sun and the rays that had been averted by shutting them would be revived again. This is borne out by the physical law of nature that we cannot get rid of darkness till we open the windows that let in the direct rays of the sun. Doubtless, therefore, the only correct course that appeals to reason is that those windows should be opened whereby not only shall we obtain light, but shall also behold the Source of all light. . For the removal of the darkness of sin and neglect, it is necessary to obtain light. This is indicated by God, the. Glorious, in the verse: 99 مَنْ كَانَ فِي هَذِةٍ أَعْمَى فَهُوَ فِي الأَخِرَةِ أَعْمَى وَأَضَلُّ سَبِيلاً 9 99 Bani Isrā'il, 17:73 [Publisher]