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independent, and ardent when the style is not sought outside the context. It is like this: when you want to fashion a literary style commensurate with the meaning's stature, it should at least be pieced together with parts necessitated by the subject or story that the speech comprises or its art and be sourced from the subject's factory, and it should be sewn in a style out of the pieces of the secondary meanings. It will certainly add power to the speech if, as long as there is no need, you don't fix your gaze beyond and you boycott the outside — if the expression's not mistaken, for this is one of the main ways to prevent your wealth being dissipated. In this way, both meaning and context and art may assist what the speech alludes to with its arrangement. Just as speech indicates the meaning through its manner of composition, so does the style or mode point through itself to the meaning. If you would like an example, take a look at the Arabic pieces in the Ninth Matter.

Consider the speech of the Most Merciful, Who taught the Qur'an: which of your Lord's verses/signs does not manifest this truth? So woe upon those literalists who dub what they do not know "repetition"

If you wish, take a look at the story of Moses, for it is more useful than the parts of a staff, the Qur'an took it in its shining white hand and the wizards of rhetoric prostrated in love and wonderment at its eloquence.

Take a look at the prefaces of the books on the instrumental sciences; even if their rhetorical eloquence is not overly subtle and elegant, their introductory lines furnish good introductions to this truth. Also, in the preface of this book when alluding to miracles, our Prophet's (UWBP) person is shown to be a miracle of his prophethood. Also, in the preface of the Third Article, the two parts of the profession of faith are shown to testify to each other. Also, in the Seventh Premise it is said to those who added to the Splitting of the Moon that it descended to the earth: "You've been the cause of the moon of the miracle being eclipsed and a sun-like proof of prophethood being obscured!" Making analogies, you can find numerous examples of this truth in this book. For like myself, its way is to

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