and from whose shadow time came to be. For this reason, it was said that 'Allah created Adam after the likeness of His form'."

[129] And our Master, the Commander of the Faithful—His glory is mighty—said in the "Book of Obedience" [Kitab al-Ta'ah]: "There is nothing on earth but that it has a similitude in heaven. And indeed, these five senses within man—meaning hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch—must possess intellectual, sensory, and perceptive personified loci tasked with them, preserving their order, and sustaining them. Verily, man is a microcosm ['alam saghir] fashioned after a macrocosm ['alam kabir]; despite his smallness, he encompasses correspondences to what is contained within the larger world, and despite his smallness, he contains a mixture of all physical humors. For man is structured upon bodily organs and joints, and there is neither an organ nor a joint within him but that it speaks eloquently of an obligated personage upon him is its recognition. If it is praiseworthy, he is judged by his praise and obedience to it; and if it is blameworthy, he is judged by his condemnation and opposition to it. Whenever man lacks one of these organs or one of these joints, it is due to an ailment that afflicted him from that personage—either resulting from his disbelief in it,