“He connected the body to dark clay and the spirit to the breath of His own Spirit, so that the light and divine Breath would make the dark clay its instrument for… guarding God’s Trust; so that it might be a means of …elevation, and high degrees. The purpose was not that the dark clay, through its greed for the light of ‘I breathed My spirit into him’, should make the lamp its instrument for treachery and theft. When a thief comes with a lamp, he takes the better goods. On the contrary, that lamp and candle… should illuminate the clay of the body… and hold it back from its greed….” (Rumi, Maktubat)
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Greetings: I am trying to understand the ‘trust’ that man chose to accept. What is the trust actually? Maybe it’s many things, but is it primarily to accept Tawhid? I have read several works which discuss the trust in passing. One mentioned the Covenant of Alast in which Adam and his descendents bear witness to the Lordship of God. Are they the one and same?
Salaam alaikum Hamdard,
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