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How can a cause exist of itself without precedent cause
That Cause makes this cause operative,
And again helpless and inoperative.
That Cause, which is a guiding light to the prophets,
That, I say, is higher than these second causes,
Man's minds recognise these second causes,
But only prophets perceive the action of the First Cause

E. Whinfield: Masnavi, 2nd ed. 1898. p. 16