The further a society is from revealed knowledge, the greater the filosofers proliferate – cos mankind is build on meaning and without it comes a great inner thirst; but strip away Allah and his Messengers and watchagot? nowt, nix, nought – so the Wortkramers ply their trade agogo using, unbeknowns to them it seems, the very vocab which issues from the divine gift of the gab: were they to read what the Lord of the Worlds, exalted be He, and His Messenger actually said, peace be upon him, they would be able to use their Allah-given faculties to explore linguistically a realm based on Truth, rather than regress in their endless meanderings towards truth.

The one is sophystikated and the other is gullible, but trusting; one loves Mme Sophy and the other Demoiselle ‘Ilm, the gift of the ‘Alim, the All-Knower; the one covers up the Haqq, the Real, with information, the other discloses it with iman; the one has yaqeen and sakeena, the other skepticism and mistrust.

They will say, ‘There were three of them, their dog being the fourth.’ They will say, ‘There were five of them, their dog being the sixth,’ guessing at the Unseen. And they will say, ‘There were seven of them, their dog being the eighth.’ Say: ‘My Lord knows best their number. Those who know about them are very few.’