Abu Yahya Zakariya’ ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini (1203-1283)
Zakariya al-Qazwini was a Persian physician, astronomer, geographer and writer of Arab origin. He belonged to a family of jurists who had long before settled in Qazvin. (Zakariya al-Qazwini Quotes)
“If a person sees a beehive, and has not seen one previously, he will become bewildered because he does not understand who made it. If he then learns that it is the work of the bee, he will be bewildered again by how this weak creature makes these hexagons, the likes of which a skilled engineer would be unable to make with a compass and ruler.”
Zakariya al-Qazwini
“If you want to be certain of what seems strange, then get to work testing it. But beware of being misled, or of being overcome with fatigue, or of becoming fed-up if your rest does not come out right once or twice… If you see a magnet that does not attract iron, then do not deny its characteristic property, but set your sights on investigating its various states until its power becomes evident to you.”
Zakariya al-Qazwini
“The Prophet, Peace be Upon Him, said, ‘Contemplate Allah’s creation.’ Intelligent contemplation comes only to one who has been bewildered by what is known… For when that has happened, the eye of discernment opens for him, and he sees ‘ajab (wonder) in everything.”
Zakariya al-Qazwini
“There is no end to the study and classification of the different manifest and hidden attributes, forms, and meaning of things that exist. In all of this are things held from thought and from sight.”
Zakariya al-Qazwini
“They said: ‘ajab is the bewilderment that befalls a person because of his failure to understand the cause of something, or to understand the effect of the cause of something upon it or alternately, upon him.”
Zakariya al-Qazwini
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