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intellect proceed. In what lies beyond it has no part, save in the understanding
of what the physician communicates to it.
These are matters which we learned by a necessity like that of direct vision
in the period of solitude and retirement.
We next observed the laxity of men‟s belief in the principle of prophecy and
in its actuality and in conduct according to the norms elucidated by prophecy;
we ascertained that this was widespread among the people. When I
considered the reasons for people‟s laxity and weakness of faith, I found there
were four:
(a) a reason connected with those who engage in philosophy;
(b) a reason connected with those who engage in the mystic way;
(c) a reason connected with those who profess the doctrine of ta’lim;
of what the physician communicates to it.
These are matters which we learned by a necessity like that of direct vision
in the period of solitude and retirement.
We next observed the laxity of men‟s belief in the principle of prophecy and
in its actuality and in conduct according to the norms elucidated by prophecy;
we ascertained that this was widespread among the people. When I
considered the reasons for people‟s laxity and weakness of faith, I found there
were four:
(a) a reason connected with those who engage in philosophy;
(b) a reason connected with those who engage in the mystic way;
(c) a reason connected with those who profess the doctrine of ta’lim;