The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 28
28. Essence of Islam-III to her son out of pure sympathy. This is the highest grade of doing good, which cannot be surpassed. . God Almighty has made all these categories of doing good contingent upon the demands of time and occasion and has clearly laid down in the above verse, that if these good acts are not done on their proper occasion, they will become vices. 'Adl [fairness] will become Faḥshā' [foul], or in other words, crossing limits will result in an undesirable situation. And Iḥsān [right] would become. Munkar [wrong] which reason and conscience reject. . And Ita'i dhil Qurbā [spontaneous compassion] will turn into transgression, that is, this ill-placed sympathy would create an ugly situation. Actually, Baghi means such excessive rain as destroys the harvest; hence exceeding the appropriate limits is also Baghi. . In short, any of these three qualities, exercised out of place, would deteriorate in character; that is why these are made contingent upon the due observance of occasion and place. Here it should be remembered that justice, benevolence or graciousness as between kindred are not by themselves moral qualities. These are man's natural states and faculties, which are found even in children before their reason is developed. To become moral, the exercise of reason is the condition precedent. Another requirement is that every natural faculty should be exercised in its proper occasion and place. [Islāmī Uşūl kī Philosophy, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 10, pp. 353-354]. True Courage. Of all the natural states of man is one that resembles courage. For example, a suckling sometimes tries to put its hand into the fire because of this natural faculty. Before being exposed to various frightening experiences, a