Indication

Nature and the matters they call the general laws possess nothing at all to persuade the reason or make themselves agreeable to thought or appear familiar to the truth, and they lack the ability to be the source and original cause of the universe. Therefore, to consider the astounding works of divine power to proceed from the artistry of nature, which resembles a printing press, and to imagine nature to be the source rather than a pattern is the result of an absurd analogy that attempts to extrapolate a particular necessary consequence from the most general precedent, and is due solely to heedlessness of the Maker and the distress arising from the constraints of the cosmic order. This absurd analogy has opened up numerous paths to the valleys of misguidance and perplexity.

Elucidation

Despite suffering much opposition and violation, the Shari'a and laws, which set voluntary actions in order, have been imagined by many ignoramuses to be some sort of spiritual ruler; fancying the order to be a monarch, they suppose it possesses effectiveness. Yes, wouldn't it be peculiar if a savage observed the regular actions of a regiment of soldiers and their uniform movements, and supposed those numerous individuals to be tied together with string? Or would one ever see a vagrant or rhymester attributing external existence to the system which endowed a large number of people with a pleasing arrangement, seeing the code of laws as a sort of leader? In which case, why should the code of divine natural laws which is linked to events in the cosmos and is called nature and is violated only to affirm the prophets and exalt the saints and is ceaseless, why should it be embodied due to delusions? Why should it be considered strange?

Misapprehension and Note

Just as man's mind, tongue, and hearing are particular and follow each other in succession, so are his thought and endeavour minor and particular. His attention can be focused on only one thing after another and he is busy with things one at a time. Also, man's worth and nature are proportionate to his aspirations. And the