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personal observation, or by hearsay as a matter of common knowledge.
For example, if you are familiar with medicine and law, you can recognize
lawyers and doctors by observing what they are, le, by hearing what they
have to say. Thus you are not unable to recognize that al-Shafi‟i (Allah
have mercy upon him) is a lawyer and Galen a doctor; and your recognition
is based on the facts and not on the judgment of someone else. Indeed,
just because you have some knowledge of law and medicine, and examine
their books and writings, you arrive at an obvious knowledge of what these
men are.
Similarly, if you understand what it is to be a prophet, and have devoted
much time to the study of the Koran and the Prophetic Sayings, you will
arrive at a obvious knowledge of the fact that Muhammad, may Allah
venerate him and grant him peace, is in the highest grade of the prophetic
calling. Convince yourself of that by trying out what he said about the
influence of devotional practices on the purification of the heart, how truly
he asserted that `whoever lives out what he knows will receive from Allah
what he does not know‟; how truly he asserted that `if anyone aids an
evildoer, Allah will give that man power over him‟; how truly he asserted that
For example, if you are familiar with medicine and law, you can recognize
lawyers and doctors by observing what they are, le, by hearing what they
have to say. Thus you are not unable to recognize that al-Shafi‟i (Allah
have mercy upon him) is a lawyer and Galen a doctor; and your recognition
is based on the facts and not on the judgment of someone else. Indeed,
just because you have some knowledge of law and medicine, and examine
their books and writings, you arrive at an obvious knowledge of what these
men are.
Similarly, if you understand what it is to be a prophet, and have devoted
much time to the study of the Koran and the Prophetic Sayings, you will
arrive at a obvious knowledge of the fact that Muhammad, may Allah
venerate him and grant him peace, is in the highest grade of the prophetic
calling. Convince yourself of that by trying out what he said about the
influence of devotional practices on the purification of the heart, how truly
he asserted that `whoever lives out what he knows will receive from Allah
what he does not know‟; how truly he asserted that `if anyone aids an
evildoer, Allah will give that man power over him‟; how truly he asserted that