I have realised that al-Homsi’s message was at times impossible to comprehend. Very few men were brave enough to face up to themselves and investigate whether his words were really Truth. For you will find, dear reader, that most men are pitiful cowards who cannot be objective and remove their prejudices and look at his words in the cold light of their intellect. Sometimes an individual might manage to do so, but the consequences of his discovery and all that the discovery entails, the changes, the hardship, the difficulties mean that he buries himself in the sands of obscurity and hopes that the seeds of doubt do not afflict them. He resorts to follow his predecessors, assuming that they were correct, although perhaps they were people who lacked intellect. These persons, dear reader are t
