وَقَالَ (عليه السلام):
Amir al-mu'minin, peace be upon him, said:
عَرَفْتُ اللهَ سُبْحَانَهُ
I came to know Allah, the Glorified,
بِفَسْخِ الْعَزَائِمِ
through the breaking of determinations,
وَحَلِّ الْعُقُودِ.
change of intentions and losing of courage. 59
59. The breaking of determinations and losing of courage can be argued to prove the existence of Allah in this way that, for example, a man determines to do a thing hut before the determination is transformed into action, it changes and some other idea takes its place. This alteration of ideas and determinations and the emergence of change therein is a proof that there is some higher controlling power over us which has the capacity to bring them from non-existence to existence and again from existence into non-existence, and this is what is beyond human power. Therefore, it is necessary to acknowledge a super authority who effects change and alteration in determinations.
