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seeing that such a
project is only to be executed with the aid of time and through a pious sovereign who is
all-powerful?‟
9[11] cp. Encyclopedia of Islam, s.v. `Ibahiya’
I believed that it was permissible for me in the sight of Allah to continue in retirement on the
ground of my
inability to demonstrate the truth by argument. But Allah Most High determined Himself to stir up
the impulse
of the sovereign of the time, though not by any external means; the latter gave me strict orders to
hasten to
Naysabur (Nishapur) to tackle the problem of this indifference in religious matters. So
strict was the
injunction that, had I persisted in disobeying it, I should at length have been cut off! I came to
realize too,
that the grounds which had made retirement permissible had lost their force. „It is not right that
your motive
project is only to be executed with the aid of time and through a pious sovereign who is
all-powerful?‟
9[11] cp. Encyclopedia of Islam, s.v. `Ibahiya’
I believed that it was permissible for me in the sight of Allah to continue in retirement on the
ground of my
inability to demonstrate the truth by argument. But Allah Most High determined Himself to stir up
the impulse
of the sovereign of the time, though not by any external means; the latter gave me strict orders to
hasten to
Naysabur (Nishapur) to tackle the problem of this indifference in religious matters. So
strict was the
injunction that, had I persisted in disobeying it, I should at length have been cut off! I came to
realize too,
that the grounds which had made retirement permissible had lost their force. „It is not right that
your motive