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  • The stone and the iron are indeed causes, but look higher, O good man!
  • For this (external) cause was produced by that (spiritual) cause: when did a cause ever proceed from itself without a cause?
  • And those causes which guide the prophets on their way are higher than these (external) causes.
  • That (spiritual) cause makes this (external) cause operative; sometimes, again, it makes it fruitless and ineffectual. 845
  • (Ordinary) minds are familiar with this (external) cause, but the prophets are familiar with those (spiritual) causes.
  • What is (the meaning of) this (word) “cause” (sabab) in Arabic? Say: “cord” (rasan). This cord came into this well (the world) by (Divine) artifice.
  • The revolution of the water-wheel causes the cord (to move), (but) not to see the mover of the water-wheel is an error.
  • Beware, beware! Do not regard these cords of causation in the world as (deriving their movement) from the giddy wheel (of heaven),
  • Lest you remain empty and giddy like the (celestial) wheel, lest through brainlessness you burn like markh wood. 850
  • By the command of God the wind devours (extinguishes) fire: both are drunken with the wine of God.