Eighth to the Sixteenth Century - Rashid Islamic Center

Primary Sources • 263is confirmed, you will find that they are of this kind. The clearestof miracles is the Venerable Book of Allah, the existence of whichis not an interruption of the course of nature assumed by tradition,like the changing of a rod into a serpent, but its miraculous natureis established by way of perception and consideration for every manwho has been or who will be till the day of resurrection. And so thismiracle is far superior to all others.Let this suffice for the man who is not satisfied with passing thisprob lem over in silence, and may he understand that the argumenton which the learned base their belief in the prophets is another, towhich Ghazali himself has drawn attention in another place, namelythe act which pro ceeds from that quality through which the prophetis called prophet, that is the act of making known the mysteriousand establishing religious laws which are in accordance with thetruth and which bring about acts that will determine the happinessof the totality of mankind. I do not know anyone but Avicennawho has held the theory about dreams Ghazali mentions. Theancient philosophers assert about revelation and dreams only thatthey proceed from God through the intermediation of a spiritualincorpo real being which is according to them the bestower of thehuman intellect, and which is called by the best authors the activeintellect and in the Holy Law angel.z