Second Point: With compound and branching analogies, the aims multiply successively. [^11] As though the speaker is pointing to the aim's continuance and a natural history of its increase. For example, the world is beautiful, which means its Maker is wise; He does nothing in vain, wastes nothing, nor neglects the potentialities of anything. Therefore, He will perpetually perfect the world's order. He will not condemn human beings to non-existence, which is harrowing, intolerable, eternal separation, for eternal separation destroys all hope and perfections. There will therefore be everlasting happiness.

[^11]:In this sentence, the Turkish of which is, "Kıyas-ı mürekkeb ve müteşaab sırrıyla metalib tenasül edip teselsül etmektir," the term kıyas-ı mürekkeb also refers to a polysyllogism. This is a multi-premise syllogism — a string of any number of propositions forming together a sequence of syllogisms, such that the conclusion of each syllogism, together with the next proposition, is a premise for the next, and so on.

The above is a good example of the third aspect of difference between man and the animals in the discussion on general prophethood in the introduction to the second part of the profession of faith in the Third Article.

The Third Point puts together and mentions a number of fundamentals (usûl) that produce a single result. For even if each fundamental (asl) is not intentionally and itself linked to some elevated result, it at least provokes it and causes it to emerge. As though the exemplifications, which are called fundamentals, indicate the aim's abstract loftiness, caused by the mirrors' difference and the sameness of the result and what is shown, and indicate too the conjoining of the vital power of the speech with the truth known as universal life, or the general motion called the life of the world. The First Aim of the Third Aim at the end of the Third Article is an example of this. Another example is furnished by the Indication, Guidance, Note and Judgement in the Fourth Matter and Way of the Third Article.

Consider the Word of the Most Merciful, Who teaches the Qur'an; Do any of your Lord's verses not manifest this truth? So