The Meaning of an “Enlightened Conscience”

Question

Do servants of Allah with an “enlightened conscience” (روشن ضمیر) perceive the affairs of the fourteen spheres (the seven heavens and the seven earths), and do they know everything?

Answer

The meaning of an “enlightened conscience” is not that the fourteen spheres become visible to them, but that Allah Most High has created such a light in their hearts that they distinguish so clearly between sunna and bid‘a, truth and falsehood, right and wrong, obedience and disobedience, that they never incline towards bid‘a and disobedience — lest this light of theirs be…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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