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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 property of prophecy you can understand by analogy as
the
dream-state. If the prophet possessed a faculty to which you had nothing comparable and which you
did not
understand, how could you believe in it? Believing presumes understanding. That comparable
experience
comes to a man in the early stages of the mystic way. Thereby he attains a kind of immediate
experience,
extending as far as that to which he has attained, and by analogy to a kind of belief or assent
into that
which he has not attained. Thus, this single property is a sufficient basis for one‟s faith in the
principle of
prophecy.
If you come to doubt whether a specific person is a prophet or not, certainty can only be reached
The other properties of prophetic revelation are apprehended only by immediate experience
(Thawq)
from the practice of the mystic way, but this property of prophecy you can understand by analogy as
the
dream-state. If the prophet possessed a faculty to which you had nothing comparable and which you
did not
understand, how could you believe in it? Believing presumes understanding. That comparable
experience
comes to a man in the early stages of the mystic way. Thereby he attains a kind of immediate
experience,
extending as far as that to which he has attained, and by analogy to a kind of belief or assent
into that
which he has not attained. Thus, this single property is a sufficient basis for one‟s faith in the
principle of
prophecy.
If you come to doubt whether a specific person is a prophet or not, certainty can only be reached