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lives out what he knows will receive from Allah what he does not know‟; how
truly he asserted that `if anyone aids an evildoer, Allah will give that man
power over him‟; how truly he asserted that `if a man rises up in the morning
with but a single care (to please Allah), Allah most high will preserve him from
all cares in this world and the next‟. When you have made trial of these in a
thousand or several thousand instances, you will arrive at obvious knowledge
beyond all doubt.
By this method, then, seek certainty about the prophetic office, and not from
the transformation of a rod into a serpent or the cleaving of the moon. For if
you consider such an event by itself, without taking account of the numerous
circumstances accompanying it, circumstances readily eluding the grasp of
the intellect, then you might perhaps suppose that it was magic and deception
and that it came from Allah to lead men astray; for „He leads astray whom He
will, and guides whom He will‟. Thus the topic of miracles will be thrown back
upon you; for if your faith is based on a reasoned argument involving the
probative force of the miracle, then your faith is destroyed by an ordered
argument showing the difficulty and ambiguity of the miracle.
truly he asserted that `if anyone aids an evildoer, Allah will give that man
power over him‟; how truly he asserted that `if a man rises up in the morning
with but a single care (to please Allah), Allah most high will preserve him from
all cares in this world and the next‟. When you have made trial of these in a
thousand or several thousand instances, you will arrive at obvious knowledge
beyond all doubt.
By this method, then, seek certainty about the prophetic office, and not from
the transformation of a rod into a serpent or the cleaving of the moon. For if
you consider such an event by itself, without taking account of the numerous
circumstances accompanying it, circumstances readily eluding the grasp of
the intellect, then you might perhaps suppose that it was magic and deception
and that it came from Allah to lead men astray; for „He leads astray whom He
will, and guides whom He will‟. Thus the topic of miracles will be thrown back
upon you; for if your faith is based on a reasoned argument involving the
probative force of the miracle, then your faith is destroyed by an ordered
argument showing the difficulty and ambiguity of the miracle.