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merely that, through its form and state, (it testifies to the Ability and Knowledge of its Maker).
Similarly everything does, in itself, stand in need of the Creator to create and sustain it, to
maintain its
attributes and to move it to and fro in its different states. And through its need it testifies to
its Maker by
Exalting Him. Such a witness is comprehended by those who have insight, not those who stand still
and
do not venture beyond the externals. For this reason Allah said, "But you do not understand their
extolling." (Quran 17:46). Those with lessor intellect do not understand this at all, while the
favorites of
Allah and the versatile learned men do not understand it perfectly because everything extols Allah
and
praises Him in many ways and each comprehends according to his intellect and insight.
The enumeration of these witnesses is not becoming under the science of practical Religion. In this
part
too those who cling to externals differ from those who have insight, and in it the disagreement
between
Similarly everything does, in itself, stand in need of the Creator to create and sustain it, to
maintain its
attributes and to move it to and fro in its different states. And through its need it testifies to
its Maker by
Exalting Him. Such a witness is comprehended by those who have insight, not those who stand still
and
do not venture beyond the externals. For this reason Allah said, "But you do not understand their
extolling." (Quran 17:46). Those with lessor intellect do not understand this at all, while the
favorites of
Allah and the versatile learned men do not understand it perfectly because everything extols Allah
and
praises Him in many ways and each comprehends according to his intellect and insight.
The enumeration of these witnesses is not becoming under the science of practical Religion. In this
part
too those who cling to externals differ from those who have insight, and in it the disagreement
between