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habitually believing in it, so that if an astrologer says to him, `If the sun is in
the ecliptic, and star A confronts, while the ascendant is constellation B, then,
should you put on a new garment at that time, you will be killed in that
garment‟; he will not put on the garment at that time, even though he may
suffer from extreme cold and even though he hears this from an astrologer
whose falsity he has acknowledged a hundred times.
How on earth when a man‟s mind is capable of accepting such strange
statements and is compelled to acknowledge that these are properties, the
knowledge of which is a miracle for some of the prophets how does he come
to reject a similar fact in respect of what he hears of the teaching of a prophet,
especially when that prophet speaks truth, is accredited by miracles, and is
never known to have been in error?
If the philosopher denies the possibility of there being such properties in
the number of rak`ahs, the casting of stones (in the valley of Mina during the
Pilgrimage), the number of the elements of the Pilgrimage and the other
ceremonies of worship of the sacred law, he will not find, in principle, any
difference between these and the properties of drugs and stars. He may say,
the ecliptic, and star A confronts, while the ascendant is constellation B, then,
should you put on a new garment at that time, you will be killed in that
garment‟; he will not put on the garment at that time, even though he may
suffer from extreme cold and even though he hears this from an astrologer
whose falsity he has acknowledged a hundred times.
How on earth when a man‟s mind is capable of accepting such strange
statements and is compelled to acknowledge that these are properties, the
knowledge of which is a miracle for some of the prophets how does he come
to reject a similar fact in respect of what he hears of the teaching of a prophet,
especially when that prophet speaks truth, is accredited by miracles, and is
never known to have been in error?
If the philosopher denies the possibility of there being such properties in
the number of rak`ahs, the casting of stones (in the valley of Mina during the
Pilgrimage), the number of the elements of the Pilgrimage and the other
ceremonies of worship of the sacred law, he will not find, in principle, any
difference between these and the properties of drugs and stars. He may say,