P: Follow those who ask of you no fee, and who are rightly guided.
S: Follow him who does not ask you for reward, and they are the followers of the right course;
036.022 Y: "It would not be reasonable in me if I did not serve Him Who created me, and to Whom ye shall (all) be brought back."
P: For what cause should I not serve Him Who hath created me, and unto
Whom ye will be brought back?
S: And what reason have I that I should not serve Him Who brought me into existence? And to Him you shall be brought back;
036.023 Y: "Shall I take (other) gods besides Him? If (Allah) Most Gracious should intend some adversity for me, of no use whatever will be their intercession for me, nor can they deliver me."
P: Shall I take (other) gods in place of Him when, if the Beneficent should wish me any harm, their intercession will avail me naught, nor can they save?
S: What! shall I take besides Him gods whose intercession, if the Beneficent Allah should desire to afflict me with a harm, shall not avail me aught, nor shall they be able to deliver me?
036.024 Y: "I would indeed, if I were to do so, be in manifest Error."
P: Then truly I should be in error manifest.