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« that it would drown in blood.’ His words, Exalted is He: [90:10] and given him guidance [concerning] the two paths? 4 He said: ‘We have clearly shown him the path of goodness that he may follow it, and the path of evil that he may avoid it’, just as He said, Verily We have guided him to the way, whether he be grateful or ungrateful [76:3]. It has also been said [that it refers to] management and devising (tadbīr).5 1 Bukhārī, Ṣaḥīḥ, ‘Kitāb al-Janāʾiz’. 2 See above, IT, p. xxxii, Tustarī’s commentary on 2:5 and p. 15, n. 17. 3 i.e. with its head upwards. 4 Verses 8–10 make up a rhetorical question: Have We not given him two eyes  and a tongue, and two lips  and »