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  • The entire Qur’án consists of commands and prohibitions and threats (of punishment): who (ever) saw commands given to a marble rock?
  • Does any wise man, does any reasonable man, do this? Does he show anger and enmity to brickbats and stones?—
  • Saying, ‘I told you to do thus or thus: why have ye not done it, O dead and helpless ones?’
  • How should reason exercise any authority over wood and stone? How should reason lay hold of the painted figure of a cripple,
  • Saying, ‘O slave with palsied hands and broken legs, take up the lance and come to battle’? 3030
  • How, (then), should the Creator who is the Maker of stars and sky make commands and prohibitions like those of an ignorant person?
  • You have removed from God the possibility of impotence, (but) you have (virtually) called Him ignorant and stupid and foolish.
  • (Divine) impotence does not follow from the doctrine of Free-will; and even if it do, ignorance is worse than impotence.
  • The Turcoman says graciously to the stranger-guest, ‘Come to my door without a dog and without a tattered cloak,
  • And hark, come in respectfully from such and such a quarter, in order that my dog may keep his teeth and mouth closed (and refrain) from (biting) thee.’ 3035