96. Just as there are obedience  and rebellion in the face of the commands  of the Shari‘a, so there are obedience and rebellion in the face of the creative commands in the universe. With regard to the first, the reward and punishment are mostly in the hereafter, while with the second, they are mostly in this world. For example, the reward  for patience  is victory; the punishment  for idleness  is poverty;  the reward for effort is wealth, and the reward for constancy, triumph. Justice without equality is not justice.

97.  Mutual  resemblance  is  the  cause  of  contradiction;  congruity  is  the  basis  of solidarity;  smallness  of character  is the  source  of arrogance;  weakness  is the source of pride; impotence is the source of opposition; and curiosity is the teacher of knowledge.

98. Through need, and especially through hunger, the Creator’s power has reined in foremost man, and all the animals, and put them in order. Also, He saved the world  from  anarchy,  and  making  need  the  master  of  civilization,  ensured progress.

99. Distress teaches vice; despair is the source of misguidance; and darkness of heart, the source of spiritual distress.

100. When men become amiable through following their fancies, women become masculine by being impudent.

A beautiful woman entering a gathering of brothers awakens hypocrisy, rivalry, and envy. That is to say, the unveiling  of women led to the unveiling of bad morals in civilized man.

101.  The  represented  forms  of  little  smiling  corpses  have  played  a  large  role  in making the evil-polluted perverse spirit of modern man what it is.

102. The prohibited statue is either petrified tyranny, or embodied lust, or personified hypocrisy.

103. For someone who has truly entered into the bounds of Islam by conforming precisely to its incontestable matters, the desire to expand is the desire to be perfected. But for someone deemed outside those bounds due to slackness, the desire to expand is the desire to destroy. In time of storm and earthquake, it is advisable  to not open the door of ijtihad,  and  to close the windows  too. The overly free and easy should not be indulged with dispensations, but determinedly and severely warned.

104. Unfortunate truths become worthless in worthless hands.

105. Our globe resembles a living being; it displays the signs of life. Would it not become a sort of animal if it were reduced to the size of an egg? Or if a microbe were to be enlarged to the size of the globe, would it not resemble it? If it has life, it has a spirit too. If the world were reduced to the size of man, and the stars made the particles and substance of his being, would it not also be a living conscious being? God has many such animals.