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The Gnostic's Proof - Hamza ibn Ali ibn Shu'ba al-Harrani

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So we say from the perspective of reason: Which of the two is better, the knowledgeable [Scholar] or the ignorant?

It is said: The knowledgeable.

So if it is established that the knowledgeable is better than the ignorant, it is established that the form of the human is better than the form of the predator, although the predator does not choose to be a human due to its ignorance of humanity; and for that reason, the ignorant does not desire to be knowledgeable due to his ignorance of knowledge.

And we have seen the human seeing the predator in the form of the beast, so he uses stratagems against it and hunts it, and he knows what its form is and what its genus is, while the predator does not know what the human is. Likewise, the knowledgeable sees the ignorant as if he were a neglected beast, and his soul is nourished by the sweetness of knowledge which that ignorant one has been denied. And he sees the edibles, the drinkables, and all that he is in with the eye of reality, so he does not heed them, while that ignorant one does not know what he is in.

And this is a clear saying that indicates the difference between the two forms: the human and the bestial.

Do you not see what the form of the beast is attached to, regarding the control over it and the eating of it? This Speaking Animal [Hayawan Natiq] controls it and uses stratagems against it.

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