God bestows from on high1 the best of all teachings in the shape of a divine writ fully consistent within itself, repeating each statement [of the truth] in manifold forms2 - [a divine writ] whereat shiver the skins of all who of their Sustainer stand in awe: [but] in the end their skins and their hearts do soften at the remembrance of [the grace of] God.... Such is God's guidance: He guides therewith him that wills [to be guided]3 - whereas he whom God lets go astray can never find any guide.4