Understanding Salat — Page 76
Understanding S al A t 76 precision. With all this, his writings should be at such a high degree of lucidity and elegance that they are unsurpassable by any other man. Obviously, such elegance is not achievable in the above cases. This is the state of human eloquence; they can- not even take the first step without all sorts of vain, unnecessary, and trivial words and cannot even say a word without restoring to lies and useless talk. Even when they say something, it is incomplete; if the nose is present, as it were, the ears are not and if the ears are there the eyes are gone. Strict adherence to facts impairs the elegance of expression, and concern for elegance of expression may result in piles of false- hood and irrelevance—like an onion, layer after layer of shell, but nothing inside. In short, when sane reason clearly dictates the impossibility of stating even insignificant and unim- portant matters and simple events in an elegant and eloquent composition with strict adherence to a valid need and truthfulness, then how much easier is it to understand that stating lofty points of wisdom, per- tinent to [addressing] true needs, couched in exceed- ingly expressive and eloquent composition, which no one can even imagine surpassing in elegance and chasteness, is altogether supernormal and beyond the range of human capacity? Just as experience demonstrates that it is outside