The Mirror of the Excellences of Islam — Page 287
286 Α'ΙΝΑ-Ε-ΚΑMĀLĀT-E-ISLAM-DAFI UL-WASĀWIS by virtue of his humanity, and, as you believe wahy to be nothing more than a natural capacity, you will be inviting the objection stated just now. Every knowledgeable person who has experienced the phenom- enon of revelation will laugh at your conjecture that wahy is a mere natural capability. You are right to the extent that natural fitness to receive the light of Divine wahy is an essential condition for one to be able to reflect the light which God Almighty may at a certain time send down by His special will, but it is patently false that that light is to be found entirely within human nature and that nothing, having within it the character of Divine powers, comes down from the Source of all Bounty by His will. Dear Sayyed! The views you follow in regard to this are not truly the principles of Islam. Rather, they are the opinions of spiritually blind philosophers who do not believe the Holy Creator, gloried be His name, to be the Master of His will, but believe Him to be-like the sun and the moon-merely a cause among causes of certain occurrences. When you begin to believe that God is the Master of His will and is the Being who sends down wahy in accordance with His own will, and also understand wahy to be something which emanates from His very Being, descending upon hearts with Divine power, then under these circumstances, you will not be able to say that it is a natural proficiency, nor call it a natural capability. Rather, you will designate it the Light of God which is sent down by the hand of God through His will, and descends at the very time when He pleases. Certainly, the light which descends, however, only illumines the one whose nature is worthy of it and makes him aware of itself. The answer to the objection that we cannot accept this view of wahy because it is beyond the comprehension of human intellect, is that if the intellect of man considers an established truth to be above and beyond its comprehension, it will not be permissible to reject that truth simply because human intellect cannot probe its reality. In the world, plants, minerals, and animals are found to have many properties