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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 `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,
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 `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,