Also, the simplicity of hunters and desert dwellers is quite dissimilar to the trickery and cunning of peasants and the civilised; trickery is disguised behind the veil of civilisation. Also, many sciences may be given rise to and provoked by customs, circumstances, and events. Also, the light of human vision cannot penetrate the future and cannot see what is particular to it. Also, human laws have a natural lifespan; at some point they cease like human respiration. Also, time and place have a powerful effect on the affairs of people. Also, things that formerly were considered marvels, may now be looked on as commonplace, for ways and means have been perfected. Also, no matter how wondrous human intelligence may be, it is inadequate to perfect a science all at once, so how could it perfect numerous sciences?

Brother! Consult with these matters, then withdraw and assume the position of inspector. Divest yourself completely of the imaginings and assumptions of time and place; then from the shore of this age enter the boundless ocean of time and emerge on the island of the Era of Bliss. What will strike your eye before all else is a single person who bereft of helper and power is challenging the whole world. He has taken on his shoulders a truth greater than the globe — a Shari'a and code of laws which guarentees the happiness of all humankind; which as the sum and substance of all the divine sciences and branches of true knowledge, expands in conjunction with the unfolding of the human potentialities, and establishes such justice that it organises humankind's circumstances — yielding fruits in this world and the next — as though men were members of a single council and the people of the same era. If you were to ask the Shari'a's laws whence they had come and where they were going, they would tell you that they had come from pre-eternity, and that, accompanying humankind for its well-being on the road to eternity, they were headed for post-eternity. Even if their outward links with us are severed after departure from this transient world, in spirit they will always be the guide and spiritual sustenance of human kind.