Now listen to the Point: History testifies that only the greatest geniuses can arouse a few emotions in people and develop one or two of their abilities and fire their passions, for if their dormant emotions are not awakened, the effects of their efforts will be temporary and go for nothing. Even the greatest geniuses have succeeded in arousing only one or two of the emotions.

In Short: A sense of freedom and feelings of zeal and love… To swiftly arouse and disclose in the nomadic peoples of the boundless deserts of the Arabian Peninsula thousands, even, of elevated dormant, latent, hidden emotions, and to cause them to burst into flower instantaneously was the mark of the light-scattering sun of truth. For anyone whose mind cannot comprehend this Point, we shall lay out before his eyes the Arabian Peninsula. Take Arabia: if a hundred of the most eminent philosophers were to be sent there after thirteen centuries of human progress and they were to labour there for a hundred years, could they achieve at the present time one hundredth of what he achieved there at that time?

Indication

Whoever seeks success has to be acquainted with and comply with divine practice (âdetullah — the natural laws), creation, and the nature of things. The innate disposition of things will otherwise confound his efforts and he will be unsuccessful; the general current of things casts into nothingness those who oppose it. In consequence, consider the following. You will see the degree to which the truths of the Shari'a are in conformity with the profound, precise laws in force in creation, which are invisible to the microscope of the mind. Those truths are cognisant of them and in harmony with them. For they have preserved the balance of those laws. Yes, the fact that the Shari'a has preserved its truths throughout the mighty unheavals of the long ages, indeed, has caused them to unfold, shows that the way of the Most Noble Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace) is founded upon the truth, which can never perish. Having grasped these points, listen with a broad, reasoning, and attentive mind to the following:

Despite being unlettered and lacking any outward power or rule