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Spiritual_Roadmap_by_Ghazali, page : 122
not by intellectual
explanation.
Again, medicines are composed of ingredients differing in kind and quantity, one, for instance, is
twice
another in weight and amount; and this quantitative difference involves secret lore of
the same type as
knowledge of the properties. Similarly, formal worship, which is the medicine for the disease of
the hearts is
compounded of acts differing in kind and amount; the prostration (sujud) is the double of the
bowing (ruku’)
in amount, and the morning worship half of the afternoon worship; and such arrangements are not
without a
mystery of the same type as the properties which are grasped by the light of prophecy. Indeed a man
is very
foolish and very ignorant if he tries to show by intellectual means that these arrangements are
wise, or if he
fancies that they are specified accidentally and not from a Divine mystery in them which fixes them
by way
explanation.
Again, medicines are composed of ingredients differing in kind and quantity, one, for instance, is
twice
another in weight and amount; and this quantitative difference involves secret lore of
the same type as
knowledge of the properties. Similarly, formal worship, which is the medicine for the disease of
the hearts is
compounded of acts differing in kind and amount; the prostration (sujud) is the double of the
bowing (ruku’)
in amount, and the morning worship half of the afternoon worship; and such arrangements are not
without a
mystery of the same type as the properties which are grasped by the light of prophecy. Indeed a man
is very
foolish and very ignorant if he tries to show by intellectual means that these arrangements are
wise, or if he
fancies that they are specified accidentally and not from a Divine mystery in them which fixes them
by way