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took us by the hand and entrusted us to prophetic revelation, as the blind
ate entrusted to their guides and anxious patients to sympathetic doctors.
Thus far may the intellect proceed. In what lies beyond it has no part, save
in the understanding of what the physician communicates to it.

These are matters which we learned by a necessity like that of direct
vision in the period of solitude and retirement.

We next observed the laxity of men‟s belief in the principle of prophecy
and in its actuality and in conduct according to the norms elucidated by
prophecy; we ascertained that this was widespread among the people.
When I considered the reasons for people‟s laxity and weakness of faith, I
found there were four:

(a) a reason connected with those who engage in philosophy;

(b) a reason connected with those who engage in the mystic way;

(c) a reason connected with those who profess the doctrine of ta’lim;