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urgent need for it.
IV. THE TRUE NATURE OF PROPHECY
AND THE COMPELLING NEED OF ALL CREATION FOR IT
You must know that the substance of man in his original condition was
created in bareness and simplicity without any information about the worlds of
Allah Most High. These worlds are many, not to be reckoned save by Allah
Most High Himself. As He said, „None knows the hosts of thy Lord save He‟
(Koran 74, 34). Man‟s information about the world is by means of perception;
and every perception of perceptible is created so that thereby man may have
some acquaintance with a world sphere from among existence. By „worlds or
spheres‟ we simply mean „classes of existence‟.
The first thing created in man was the sense of touch, and by it he
perceives certain classes of existents, such as heat and cold, moisture and
dryness, smoothness and roughness. Touch is completely unable to
apprehend colors and noises. These might be non-existent so far as concerns
IV. THE TRUE NATURE OF PROPHECY
AND THE COMPELLING NEED OF ALL CREATION FOR IT
You must know that the substance of man in his original condition was
created in bareness and simplicity without any information about the worlds of
Allah Most High. These worlds are many, not to be reckoned save by Allah
Most High Himself. As He said, „None knows the hosts of thy Lord save He‟
(Koran 74, 34). Man‟s information about the world is by means of perception;
and every perception of perceptible is created so that thereby man may have
some acquaintance with a world sphere from among existence. By „worlds or
spheres‟ we simply mean „classes of existence‟.
The first thing created in man was the sense of touch, and by it he
perceives certain classes of existents, such as heat and cold, moisture and
dryness, smoothness and roughness. Touch is completely unable to
apprehend colors and noises. These might be non-existent so far as concerns