Indication

Thousands of prophets have claimed prophethood and supported their claims with thousands of miracles. All their miracles proclaim in unison prophethood generally. This is a decisive proof of our minor premise too. You can call this tevâtür [^7] (Ar. tawātur) in meaning or anything you like, it is firm evidence.

[^7]:Tevâtür: A unanimous report. See also, page 151 fn 78 below.

Note

The points of similarity in these reasoned arguments (muhâkemat) are these: if one considers all the sciences, and if one observes the good order and harmony the sciences have disclosed by reason of the universality of their laws; and if one studies from the point of view of divine providence how such disorderly matters and acts as eating and marriage become connected and linked by adding a pleasure or affection or some other thing, which are the vitalising leaven of various useful things; and if one dwells upon the absence of futility and of neglect in things, which is testified to by the wisdom and purpose they display; one will conclude through induction that as the pole and pivot of universal uses and benefits and the source of their life, prophethood is necessary for humankind. If it were not so and one believes that wretched humanity fell into this well-ordered world from a chaotic world, so spoiling the balance and harmony of the general course of things, how could we human beings face the other beings in the universe?

Note

Brother! If the minor premise of the proof of the Maker has been engraved on the page of your mind, prepare yourself, for we are moving on to discussion of Muhammad's (UWBP) prophethood, the major premise.

Indication and Guidance

The major premise is true, for if you study the works of the prophets which are inscribed on the instructive page of the world, and if you listen to their exploits recounted by the tongue of history,