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instance there are some astronomical laws based on phenomena which
occur only once in a thousand years; how can these be arrived at by
personal observation? It is the same with the properties of drugs.
This argument shows that it is possible for there to be a way of
apprehending these matters which are not apprehended by the intellect.
This is the meaning of prophetic revelation. That is not to say that
prophecy is merely an expression for such knowledge. Rather, the
apprehending of this class of extra-intellectual objects is one of the
properties of prophecy; but it has many other properties as well. The said
property is but a drop in the ocean of prophecy. It has been singled out for
mention because you have something analogous to it in what you
apprehend in dreaming, and because you have medical and astronomical
knowledge belonging to the same class, namely, the miracles of the
prophets,⁸ for the intellectuals cannot arrive at these at all by any
intellectual efforts.
The other properties of prophetic revelation are apprehended only by
immediate experience (Thawq) from the practice of the mystic way, but this
occur only once in a thousand years; how can these be arrived at by
personal observation? It is the same with the properties of drugs.
This argument shows that it is possible for there to be a way of
apprehending these matters which are not apprehended by the intellect.
This is the meaning of prophetic revelation. That is not to say that
prophecy is merely an expression for such knowledge. Rather, the
apprehending of this class of extra-intellectual objects is one of the
properties of prophecy; but it has many other properties as well. The said
property is but a drop in the ocean of prophecy. It has been singled out for
mention because you have something analogous to it in what you
apprehend in dreaming, and because you have medical and astronomical
knowledge belonging to the same class, namely, the miracles of the
prophets,⁸ for the intellectuals cannot arrive at these at all by any
intellectual efforts.
The other properties of prophetic revelation are apprehended only by
immediate experience (Thawq) from the practice of the mystic way, but this