Obedience and disobedience
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His commands and His prohibitions · commands · defiance · disobedience · maʻṣiyah · obedience · overstep · الطاعة · المعصية · ṭāʻah
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Adab al-wazīr
The command-and-prohibition structure of religious duty, and its breach.
Caution before Him is to stand by His commands and to desist from His prohibitions, so that a man acts in obedience to Him in what He has commanded and abstains from disobeying Him in what He has forbidden.
So expiate its acts of disobedience by repentance, and mend its evils by obedience;
Antigone
The contested duty to obey rulers and laws, set against the moral need to disobey unjust commands.
No, whomever the city may appoint, that man must be obeyed in matters small and great and in matters just and unjust.
and next, that we are ruled by the more powerful, so that we must obey in these things and in things even more stinging.
No, even when a man is wise, it brings him no shame to learn many things, and not to be too rigid.