yeah, I like the book because it speaks to you on many levels, some things are basic reminders, others really make you think, and he has a way with words.
continued from right after the previous paragraph:
"Other books are passive, the reader taking the initiative, but revelation is an act, a command from on high- comparable to a lightning flash, which obeys no man's whim. As such, it acts upon those who are responsive to it, reminding them of their true function as viceregents of God on earth, restoring to them the use of faculties which have become atrophied- like unused muscles- and showing them, not least by the example of the Prophet, what they are meant to be. To say this is to say that revelation, within the limits of what is possible in our fallen condition, restores to us the condition of fitrah. It gives back to the intelligence its lost capacity to perceive and to comprehend supernatural truths, it gives back to the will its lost capacity to command the warring factions in the soul, and it gives back to sentiment its lost capacity to love God and to love everything that reminds us of Him."
- chapter 4
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