He said:
“Since this is so, this method is the way of revelation and philosophical wisdom. It is the way brought by the messengers and conveyed in the revealed Scriptures. Scholars surpass the general public in these two forms of inference not merely in the breadth of their knowledge, but also in the depth of their knowledge of what is necessary in itself. For the general public’s consideration of existing things resembles their consideration of artifacts whose manufacture they know nothing about: all they know is that these things were made and that their maker exists.

“The scholars, by contrast, resemble someone who examines artifacts with some knowledge of how they are made and of the wisdom embodied in them. Undoubtedly, someone whose knowledge of artifacts is of this kind knows the maker better as a maker than does someone who knows only that those artifacts were made.

“As for the eternalists who deny the Maker—glorified and exalted is He—their case resembles that of someone who perceives artifacts without recognizing that they were made, but instead attributes what