action it is not to recognize or thank the one who stretches out from behind the strange veil of the unseen such wondrous favours and gifts. For if you do not recognize him, you will be compelled to say: “These strings are themselves making the diamonds and other gifts on their tips and offering them.” Then you have to accept that each string is in effect a king. Whereas before our eyes an unseen hand is making the strings too and attaching the gifts to them. This means, everything in this palace points to that miracle-displaying being rather than to themselves. If you do not recognize him, by denying all of them, you fall a hundred times lower than an animal.
Ninth Proof
NINTH PROOF
Come, my unreasoning friend! You do not recognize this palace’s owner and you do not want to recognize him because you deem his existence unlikely. You deviate into denial because with your narrow brain you cannot comprehend his wondrous arts and acts. Whereas the true unlikelihood, real difficulties, hardships, and awesome trouble lie in not recognizing him. For if we recognize him, this whole palace, this world, becomes as easy, as trouble-free as a single thing; it becomes the means to the abundance and plenty around us. But if we do not recognize him and he does not exist, then everything becomes as difficult as the whole palace, because everything is as skilfully made as the palace. Then neither the abundance nor the plenty would remain. Indeed, not one of these things which we see would pass into anyone’s hand, let alone ours. Look at just the jar of conserve attached to this string; [^16] if it had not emerged from his hidden, miracle-displaying kitchen, we could not have bought it for a hundred liras, although we buy it now for forty para. [^17]
[^16]:The jar of conserve indicates such gifts of divine mercy as melons, water melons, pomegranates, and coconuts, which are the conserves of divine power and are like tins of milk.
[^17]:1 Para = 1/40th of a kurush; 100 kurush = 1 lira.
Yes, all unlikelihood, difficulty, trouble, arduousness, indeed, impossibility, lies in not recognizing him. For a tree is given life from one root, in accordance with one law, in one centre, and the formation of thousands of fruits is as easy as one fruit. But if the fruits were tied to different centres and roots, and different laws, each fruit would be as difficult to produce as the tree. And if the equipping of an entire army is in one centre, in accordance with one law, and from one factory, in regard to quantity it is as easy as equipping a single soldier. While if each soldier is equipped from all