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the diseases caused by fever require cool medicines for their treatment. There is no
reason why charity could not be affective in such disorders. Doctors have made
mistakes before. Is it not possible that they might be wrong now? They fail to realize
that the human organism which is a fabric of such complicated correlation of parts and
functions that the more the mechanism is known, the more the wonder grows that it
ever keeps itself in working order so well and for so long as it does. This is not due to
one's efforts for keeping good health. It is all due to the Grace of the Merciful Allah. A
metaphysician, being misled by faulty observation arrives at the conclusion that a
variety of external influences have caused the ailment of his shortsightedness is
responsible for his arrival at the wrong conclusion. His eyes fail to see the depths and
the summit of the human soul in which there is a principle untouched by external
influences, which flows from the spirit, remaining in the spirit itself, altogether spiritual in
its content.
In this principle is Allah, ever verdant, flowering in all the joy and glory of His actual Self
and no man can in anyway behold it. An example will explain this. Suppose an ant
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reason why charity could not be affective in such disorders. Doctors have made
mistakes before. Is it not possible that they might be wrong now? They fail to realize
that the human organism which is a fabric of such complicated correlation of parts and
functions that the more the mechanism is known, the more the wonder grows that it
ever keeps itself in working order so well and for so long as it does. This is not due to
one's efforts for keeping good health. It is all due to the Grace of the Merciful Allah. A
metaphysician, being misled by faulty observation arrives at the conclusion that a
variety of external influences have caused the ailment of his shortsightedness is
responsible for his arrival at the wrong conclusion. His eyes fail to see the depths and
the summit of the human soul in which there is a principle untouched by external
influences, which flows from the spirit, remaining in the spirit itself, altogether spiritual in
its content.
In this principle is Allah, ever verdant, flowering in all the joy and glory of His actual Self
and no man can in anyway behold it. An example will explain this. Suppose an ant
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