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`if a man rises up in the morning with but a single care (to please Allah),
Allah most high will preserve him from all cares in this world and the next‟.
When you have made trial of these in a thousand or several thousand
instances, you will arrive at obvious knowledge beyond all doubt.
By this method, then, seek certainty about the prophetic office, and not
from the transformation of a rod into a serpent or the cleaving of the moon.
For if you consider such an event by itself, without taking account of the
numerous circumstances accompanying it, circumstances readily eluding
the grasp of the intellect, then you might perhaps suppose that it was magic
and deception and that it came from Allah to lead men astray; for „He leads
astray whom He will, and guides whom He will‟. Thus the topic of miracles
will be thrown back upon you; for if your faith is based on a reasoned
argument involving the probative force of the miracle, then your faith is
destroyed by an ordered argument showing the difficulty and ambiguity of
the miracle.
Admit that wonders of this sort are one of the proofs and accompanying
Allah most high will preserve him from all cares in this world and the next‟.
When you have made trial of these in a thousand or several thousand
instances, you will arrive at obvious knowledge beyond all doubt.
By this method, then, seek certainty about the prophetic office, and not
from the transformation of a rod into a serpent or the cleaving of the moon.
For if you consider such an event by itself, without taking account of the
numerous circumstances accompanying it, circumstances readily eluding
the grasp of the intellect, then you might perhaps suppose that it was magic
and deception and that it came from Allah to lead men astray; for „He leads
astray whom He will, and guides whom He will‟. Thus the topic of miracles
will be thrown back upon you; for if your faith is based on a reasoned
argument involving the probative force of the miracle, then your faith is
destroyed by an ordered argument showing the difficulty and ambiguity of
the miracle.
Admit that wonders of this sort are one of the proofs and accompanying