or wish for sovereignty, Muhammad Hashimi (Upon whom be blessings and peace) set out with perfect assurance in a most periIous situation, and conquering minds, becoming loved by spirits, and commanding natures, demolished numerous, deep-seated, ingrained, habitual, and savage customs and mores. Together with instilling elevated morals in their place, so firmly as to mix with the people's very flesh and blood, he stifled the savage cruelty of a people moribund in the far-flung corners of barbarism, and excited the finest of feelings. Yes, arousing lofty emotions and disclosing the essence of their humanity, he raised them in a short time to the peak of civilisation. He founded in a brief time a vast empire that spread from East to West, swallowed up other empires like a swirling fire or blinding light or Moses' staff and brought those empires to the point of extinction. He thus demonstrated to anyone whose vision and insight are not impaired his veracity, prophethood, and that he adhered to the truth. If you cannot see this, it will erase you from the book of humanity.

#### The Fourth Way

The Fourth Way

This is the question of the Shari'a in particular, from the page of the future.

You must not hold back from considering four points carefully.

The First: One person cannot be an expert and proficient in four or five sciences, unless he is a marvel.

The Second: Two people speak of a single matter. One of them expresses it suitably to the context and what precedes and succeeds it and its relationship with them and situates it suitably; that is, he sets it in fertile ground, thus indicating his skill and proficiency in the science and his knowledge of it. The other one, however, because he neglects these points, displays his superficial and plagiaristic knowledge. Whereas what they speak of is the same. If you cannot not discern this with your mind, your spirit discerns it.

The Third: As described in the Second Premise, if a discovery which two centuries ago was considered wondrous had remained undiscovered until the present, even a child could discover it now