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is the only way of treating the body.
Moreover, medicines of the body are effective in producing health through
some property in them which the intellectuals do not apprehend with their
intellect, but in respect to which one must accept the statement of the doctors;
and these in turn are dependent on the prophets who by prophethood have
grasped the properties of things. Similarly I came of necessity to realize that in
the case of the medicines of formal worship, which have been fixed and
determined by the prophets, the manner of their effectiveness is not
apprehended by the intellectual explanations of the intellectuals; one must
rather accept the statements (taqlid) of the prophets who apprehended those
properties by the light of prophecy, not by intellectual explanation.
Again, medicines are composed of ingredients differing in kind and
quantity, one, for instance, is twice another in weight and amount; and this
quantitative difference involves secret lore of the same type as knowledge of
the properties. Similarly, formal worship, which is the medicine for the disease
of the hearts is compounded of acts differing in kind and amount; the
prostration (sujud) is the double of the bowing (ruku’) in amount, and the
Moreover, medicines of the body are effective in producing health through
some property in them which the intellectuals do not apprehend with their
intellect, but in respect to which one must accept the statement of the doctors;
and these in turn are dependent on the prophets who by prophethood have
grasped the properties of things. Similarly I came of necessity to realize that in
the case of the medicines of formal worship, which have been fixed and
determined by the prophets, the manner of their effectiveness is not
apprehended by the intellectual explanations of the intellectuals; one must
rather accept the statements (taqlid) of the prophets who apprehended those
properties by the light of prophecy, not by intellectual explanation.
Again, medicines are composed of ingredients differing in kind and
quantity, one, for instance, is twice another in weight and amount; and this
quantitative difference involves secret lore of the same type as knowledge of
the properties. Similarly, formal worship, which is the medicine for the disease
of the hearts is compounded of acts differing in kind and amount; the
prostration (sujud) is the double of the bowing (ruku’) in amount, and the