extent. But adding to it needs knowledge, and a knowledgeable person is not to be excused. Similarly it is not permissible to eliminate anything from religion or to join something alien to it. To include the base metal of stories and the refuse of israiliyyat and misleading similes among the diamonds of the tenets of belief, the jewels of the Shari 'a, and the pearls of its injunctions, reduces their value to an even greater degree and disgusts their customers, the seekers after truth, even more.
##### Conclusion of the Conclusion
Conclusion of the Conclusion
It is a serious act of non-compliance with the Shari'a of Creation for a person to give up what he has a propensity for and to attempt something for which he has no ability. For the mark [of those laws] is for the man's potentialities to enter into and expand within his craft, and to esteem and love it, and to comply with and follow its rules; in short, to become engrossed in his craft. While his duty towards creation is this, by failing to comply, he alters the true form of the craft and infringes its laws. And because his inclination is towards the craft for which he has an innate capacity, he makes disagreeable the form of the craft he attempts in contravention of his nature. For confusion is born of the incompatibility of the propensity, which is potential, and the actual craft. In consequence, because out of their tendency to domineer and control and desire to be superior, numerous people want to assume positions of domination, they give up offering encouragement, guidance, and advice, and being gracious, which are the marks of knowledge, and they use their despotic, superior positions as means of compulsion and harsh censure and castigation. They exploit knowledge instead of serving it. The duties of teaching have thus passed into the hands of the incompetent, and the medreses in particular have headed for ruin. The sole solution for this is for the instructors, who form a single faculty, to be reorganized into numerous faculties like a university. Then everyone, impelled by their humanity and claiming their rights, will follow their natures and obey the command of pre-eternal wisdom, and put into practice the rule of the division of labour.