opposes the intellectual appreciation which testifies to the divine wisdom underlying the world's order, which is proof of the Maker. For example, if you turn yourself towards Mount Subhan from a great distance and you want it to be opposite you on every side; or you've seen it opposite you on every side; and you give up the short way of taking a few steps in order to bring about the change and imagine or propose taking the enormously long way of traversing a vast circle around the huge mountain, it would be an extraordinary example of waste and futility and in my view a crime against the world's order. Now look fairly with the eye of truth at this cold bigotry: just as it opposes a self-evident fact that is established through the testimony of inductive reasoning — the facts that there is no waste or futility in creation, and pre-eternal wisdom never leaves the short and direct way or chooses long and injurious ways; so too, could anything be conceived that prevents inductive reasoning being the indicator of a figure of speech? Why shouldn't it be permissible?

Reminder

If you wish, return to the Premises and make the First, the lesser and the Third the greater. They will lead you to the conclusion that what confuses the minds of the literalists is the attractions of Greek philosophy. They even look on it as an incontestable principle in understanding verses of the Qur'an. An example that would make even an elderly widow who has lost her only son roar with laughter is this: some of them who were unable to distinguish the trifles of philosophy from the jewels of truth in the words of an elevated, discerning person who was far superior to themselves, said in Kurdish: "The elements are fourfold; the angels were created from them." But these words are taken from the school of philosophy which states that the angels are luminous bodies created from the elements, and this explicitly refutes the fact that the angels are free of corporeality. They understood that the elements are fourfold and from Islam. But their being four and elements and simple are philosophers' terms and among the basic principles of the false natural sciences. They have no connection with any principle of Islam. It is rather a matter based on superficial observation. Yes, everything