is without uncertainty whether it comes through solicitude or not, except the prophetic miracle and the sign. They necessarily come through solicitude, for they establish the reporter's truthfulness.[15] The confirmation is likewise. What is beyond these two admits uncertainty, as we mentioned.
(Breaking Customary Order within the Self)
We return to what our path requires: breaking customary order among the friends of God belongs only to one who breaks customary order within himself by taking it—his self—out of the ruling its reality gives. This is its activity within the permissible, or what Satan casts to it through adornment: committing the forbidden or leaving the obligatory. Whoever breaks this customary order within himself has God break customary order for him within created being through something called speaking concerning thoughts, walking in the air, or whatever it may be.
We mentioned the divisions of these charismatic gifts, explaining their ranks and what produces them, in The Settings of the Stars. To our knowledge no one preceded us in its arrangement, not in knowing its contents. It is a book of sound method and great benefit, small in size, which we built upon correspondence, for correspondence is the origin of the world's existence, and breaks in customary order belong to the world.
(Customary and Noncustomary Signs)
God has made His signs within the world customary and noncustomary. Only those possessing understanding from God consider the customary ones. Others have no knowledge of God's intention within them.
God filled the Qurʾan with customary signs: the alternation of night and day, rainfall, the bringing forth of plants,
Notes
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(“It is the truth” [إنها الصدق] has been corrected to “for it is for the truthfulness” [لأنها لصدق] by comparison with the new edition.)
Translator’s note TN4819-1: The text names the prophetic miracle, sign, and confirmation as necessarily involving solicitude, then says “these two.” This count is retained rather than replacing it with a new enumeration.
