“For instance, if a man ceasesto take any concern in worldlymatters, conceives a distaste for common pleaures, and appears sunk in depression, the doctor will say, “This is a case of melancholy, and requires such and such prescription. The physicist willsay, “This is a dryness of thebrain caused by hot weather and cannot be relieved till the air becomes moist.” The astrologer will attribute it to some particular conjunction oropposition of plantes. “Thus far their wisdom reaches,” says the Koran. It does not occur to them that what has really happened is this: that the Almighty has a concern forthe welfare of that man, and has therefore commanded His servants, the planets or the elements, to produce such a condition in him that he may turn away from the world to his Maker.The knowledge of this fact is a lustrous pearl from the ocean of inspirationalknowledge, to which all other forms of knowldge are as islands in the sea.”
Posted on: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 12:34:29 +0000
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