said in its commentary—and our Unitarian shuyukh among those who recognized the monotheism of the Lord of the Worlds narrated to us: "Verily, the blood is the Adversary. When the believers sinned, and sins multiplied among them and they fell short in the rights of one another, He turned the deed of each one of them into a sin, and created from it a person who stood directly before his eyes, setting himself up in open enmity against him. Thus, sins multiplied and the adversaries multiplied within the abode, and they overcame whatever was inside the abode. At that point, the believer became downcast and weak. For that reason it was said: 'Even if the world were fresh, flowing blood, the sustenance of the believer therein would still be lawful.'"

He meant by that: if the believers were to consume the wealth of the adversaries and their souls, it would be lawful for them; and if one of them shows obstinacy toward the believers, his wealth is lawful for him, because it was created out of his own disobedience.

And the Master Ibrahim Mustafa said in his treatise al-Bayan, may Allah sanctify his soul: "The darknesses are the veils and iterations within the seven obstacles, just as the seven seas emerge from the gulf of the encompassing Ocean,