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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 of the property.

Yet again, medicines have bases, which are the principal active
ingredients, and `additions‟ (auxiliaries or correctives), which are
complementary, each of them having its specific influence on the action of
the bases. Similarly, the Voluntary practices and the `customs‟ are
complements which perfect the basic elements of formal worship.

In general, prophets are the physicians of the diseases of hearts. The