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between both.
(vi) Speech
The sixth principle: Is that He - the Exalted, the High - speaks with a speech which is a
Self-existing
attribute. It is neither a sound nor a letter; it does not resemble the speech of others, just as
His
Existence does not resemble others. In reality speech is the speech of the self. Sounds were built
into
words merely as symbols, just as gestures and signals are often used to represent the same thing.
How
then has this fact not been known by a group of ignorant (theologians) people while it has been
known
by ignorant poets (of theology).
One of them said: "Speech is in the heart; While the tongue is an indicator for the heart." As for
him
whose intellect does neither deter nor restrain him from saying that his tongue is an originated
(vi) Speech
The sixth principle: Is that He - the Exalted, the High - speaks with a speech which is a
Self-existing
attribute. It is neither a sound nor a letter; it does not resemble the speech of others, just as
His
Existence does not resemble others. In reality speech is the speech of the self. Sounds were built
into
words merely as symbols, just as gestures and signals are often used to represent the same thing.
How
then has this fact not been known by a group of ignorant (theologians) people while it has been
known
by ignorant poets (of theology).
One of them said: "Speech is in the heart; While the tongue is an indicator for the heart." As for
him
whose intellect does neither deter nor restrain him from saying that his tongue is an originated