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How will you stand up to them? How will you live among them, seeing that
such a project is only to be executed with the aid of time and through a pious
sovereign who is all-powerful?‟
I believed that it was permissible for me in the sight of Allah to continue in
retirement on the ground of my inability to demonstrate the truth by argument.
But Allah Most High determined Himself to stir up the impulse of the sovereign
of the time, though not by any external means; the latter gave me strict orders
to hasten to Naysabur (Nishapur) to tackle the problem of this indifference in
religious matters. So strict was the injunction that, had I persisted in
disobeying it, I should at length have been cut off! I came to realize too, that
the grounds which had made retirement permissible had lost their force. „It is
not right that your motive for clinging to retirement should be laziness and love
of ease, the quest for spiritual power and preservation from worldly
contamination. It was not because of the difficulty of restoring men to health
that you gave yourself this permission.‟
such a project is only to be executed with the aid of time and through a pious
sovereign who is all-powerful?‟
I believed that it was permissible for me in the sight of Allah to continue in
retirement on the ground of my inability to demonstrate the truth by argument.
But Allah Most High determined Himself to stir up the impulse of the sovereign
of the time, though not by any external means; the latter gave me strict orders
to hasten to Naysabur (Nishapur) to tackle the problem of this indifference in
religious matters. So strict was the injunction that, had I persisted in
disobeying it, I should at length have been cut off! I came to realize too, that
the grounds which had made retirement permissible had lost their force. „It is
not right that your motive for clinging to retirement should be laziness and love
of ease, the quest for spiritual power and preservation from worldly
contamination. It was not because of the difficulty of restoring men to health
that you gave yourself this permission.‟