The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times, Issue #22, September 2014 | Page 30

somehow ambiguous, whether correct or not, it would not be a good
thinking or courtesy to judge that all the world had been established
out of indifference and by chance because the other half would have
accurate and perfect things that would refute such hasty, untrue
opinions. How is it then that whenever one searches, he finds the utmost
correctness and perfection so that nothing may come to one’s mind
unless it is found most right and perfect?
O Mufaddal, know that the name of the universe in Greek is “cosmos”
which means embellishment. It has been called so by philosophers and
wise people too. They called it so when they saw its perfect order and
organization. They did not call it “order” or “organization” but called it
“embellishment” to show that, besides its exactness and perfection, it
was the utmost in beauty and splendor.
O Mufaddal! I wonder at those people who do not judge medicine to be
faulty though they see doctors commit mistakes, but they judge the
world to be neglected (with no manager) though they do not see
anything neglected in it. I really wonder at the morals of those who
claim to be wise but ignore morals among people and set their tongues
free to abuse the Exalted Creator, glory be to Him! The wonder is at the
wretched (Mani) when he pretends to have the knowledge of secrets
while he is blind to the evidences of wisdom in the creation and claims
that the creation is full of mistakes and the Creator is ignorant!
The oddest of all are the atheists who wanted to perceive by the senses
what could not be perceived by reason, and when they failed, they
denied the existence of the Creator and said: why is He not perceived by
reason? It is said: He is above the position of reason, as sight when does
not see that which is above its position. When you see a stone rising in
the air, you know that someone has thrown it. This knowledge comes
not from the sight but out of reason, because it is reason that
distinguishes and knows that a stone does not rise by itself. Do you not
see how the eyesight stops at a point and does not exceed it? So does
reason. It stops at a point in the cognizance of the Creator and does not
exceed it, but it realizes His existence through reasoning. It is the same
reason by which man realizes that there is a soul inside him though he
does not see or feel it by any of the senses.”