The adornment of desires and the goods of this world

On the verse that the love of desires is made attractive to people, Sha'rawi holds that the inclination which sustains life is permitted, and that excess in it is blameworthy ^{1 2}.

He says adornment is something added to substance, and that God wants us to take life by its sustaining reality rather than its finery. He uses the sexual instinct in animals and humans as the example ^{2 5}.

He holds that a person may direct love of wealth, horses and children towards good, that the Prophet ﷺ ordered horses to be trained, and that adornment may come from Satan or from the method of the faith. The deciding point is that each blessing has its work ^{3 6 7}.

He holds that this world is measured by a person's life span in it, and that the Hereafter raises goodness by permanence and perfection. Lowering the gaze from the forbidden fills the eye in the Hereafter with the lawful. He holds that the vagueness of the time of death is the highest clarity ^{8 9 4}.

His reading of the sons as males, with its social reason, and his agronomy have not been checked against works of fiqh or agriculture. The academic view and any non-Sunni view have not been checked.