المُلك والدين توأمان، فالدين أصل، والسلطان حارس، وما لا أصل له فمهدوم، وما لا حارس له فضائع - Al-Ghazali

those of animals, some of devils, and some of angels, and thou

Di sana masih terdapat pula setengah-setengah orang yang mahu berbincang mengenai zat syaitan itu sendiri. Adakah ianya jisim yang seni atau bukan jisim? Sekiranya ia jisim bagaimana ia boleh memasuki tubuh badan manusia?

Sebenarnya pertanyaan seperti ini adalah membuang masa dan tidak berfaedah sama sekali. Hal ini bolehlah diumpamakan seperti seorang yang dimasuki ular ke dalam pakaiannya dan ia mahu mengeluarkannya serta mencegah bahayanya, tetapi yang dicari ialah warna ular itu, rupanya, ukuran panjangnya dan ukuran lebarnya. Ini adalah suatu kebodohan yang tidak diperlukan.

If you were to show a piece of intelligible writing to a reasonable person and say to him: 'do you know its writer?' and he said 'no', he would be speaking truly. But if he said 'yes: its writer is a man living and powerful, hearing and seeing, sound of hand and knowledgeable in the practise of writing, and if I know all this from [the sample] how can I not know him?-he too would be speaking truly. Yet the saying of the one who said 'I do not know him' is more correct and true, for in reality he has not known him. Rather he only knows that intelligible writing requires a living writer, knowing, powerful, hearing, and seeing; yet he does not know the writer himself. Similarly, every creature knows only that this ordered and precisely disposed world requires an arranging, living, knowing, and powerful maker.