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experience of, but, where you have received information about the
experience of others, You accept them as authorities. Listen then to the
words of the prophets, for they have had experience, they have had direct
vision of the truth in respect of all that is dealt with in revelation. Walk in
their way and you too will come to know something of that by direct vision‟.
Moreover I say: `Even if you have not experienced it, yet your mind
judges it an absolute obligation to believe in it and follow it. Let us suppose
that a man of full age and sound mind, who has never experienced illness,
now falls ill; and let us suppose that he has a father who is a good man and
a competent physician, of whose reputation in medicine he has been
hearing as long as he can remember. His father compounds a drug for him,
saying, `This will make you better from your illness and cure your
symptoms‟ What judgment does his intellect make here, even if the drug is
bitter and disagreeable to the taste? Does he take it? Or does he disbelieve
and say, `I do not understand the connection of this drug with the achieving
of a cure; I have had no experience of it‟. You would certainly think him a
fool if he did that! Similarly people of vision think you a fool when you
hesitate and remain undecided‟.
You may say: `How am I to know the good will of the Prophet, peace be
upon him and his knowledge of this medical art‟? I reply: `How do you know
the good will of your father, seeing this is not something perceived by the
senses? The fact is that you have come to know it necessarily and
indubitably by comparing his attitude at different times and observing his
actions in various circumstances‟.
If one considers the sayings of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon
him and what is related in Prophetic Sayings about his concern for showing
people the true way and about his graciousness in leading men by various
acts of sympathy and kindness to improve their character and conduct and
to better their mutual relations leading them to the indispensable basis of all
betterment, religious and secular alike, if one considers this, one comes to
the obvious knowledge that his good will towards his people is greater than
that of a father towards his child.
Again, if one considers the marvelous acts manifested in his case and the
wonderful mysteries declared by his mouth in the Koran and in the
Prophetic Sayings, and his predictions of events in the distant future,
together with the fulfillment of these predictions, then one will know
necessarily that he attained to the sphere which is beyond reason, where
an eye opened in him by which the mysteries were laid bare which only the
elect apprehend, the mysteries which are not apprehended by the intellect.
experience of others, You accept them as authorities. Listen then to the
words of the prophets, for they have had experience, they have had direct
vision of the truth in respect of all that is dealt with in revelation. Walk in
their way and you too will come to know something of that by direct vision‟.
Moreover I say: `Even if you have not experienced it, yet your mind
judges it an absolute obligation to believe in it and follow it. Let us suppose
that a man of full age and sound mind, who has never experienced illness,
now falls ill; and let us suppose that he has a father who is a good man and
a competent physician, of whose reputation in medicine he has been
hearing as long as he can remember. His father compounds a drug for him,
saying, `This will make you better from your illness and cure your
symptoms‟ What judgment does his intellect make here, even if the drug is
bitter and disagreeable to the taste? Does he take it? Or does he disbelieve
and say, `I do not understand the connection of this drug with the achieving
of a cure; I have had no experience of it‟. You would certainly think him a
fool if he did that! Similarly people of vision think you a fool when you
hesitate and remain undecided‟.
You may say: `How am I to know the good will of the Prophet, peace be
upon him and his knowledge of this medical art‟? I reply: `How do you know
the good will of your father, seeing this is not something perceived by the
senses? The fact is that you have come to know it necessarily and
indubitably by comparing his attitude at different times and observing his
actions in various circumstances‟.
If one considers the sayings of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon
him and what is related in Prophetic Sayings about his concern for showing
people the true way and about his graciousness in leading men by various
acts of sympathy and kindness to improve their character and conduct and
to better their mutual relations leading them to the indispensable basis of all
betterment, religious and secular alike, if one considers this, one comes to
the obvious knowledge that his good will towards his people is greater than
that of a father towards his child.
Again, if one considers the marvelous acts manifested in his case and the
wonderful mysteries declared by his mouth in the Koran and in the
Prophetic Sayings, and his predictions of events in the distant future,
together with the fulfillment of these predictions, then one will know
necessarily that he attained to the sphere which is beyond reason, where
an eye opened in him by which the mysteries were laid bare which only the
elect apprehend, the mysteries which are not apprehended by the intellect.