The Twelfth Letter
In His Name, be He glorified!
And there is nothing but it glorifies Him with praise.
Peace be upon you and upon your companions.
My Dear Brothers!
You asked me a question that night and I did not reply, because it is not permissible to argue over questions of belief. Your discussion of them had turned into a dispute. For now I am writing very brief replies to your three questions, about which you were arguing. You will find the details in The Words; the chemist wrote down which. But it did not occur to me to mention the Twenty‑Sixth Word, about divine determining and man’s faculty of will; have a look at that too, but don’t read it like a newspaper. The reason I advised the chemist to study of those Words is this:
Doubts about matters of that sort arise from weakness of belief in the pillars of faith. Those Words prove all of them.