CAUSES OF RELIGIOUS OBLIGATIONS AND REQUITAL —83 “Clear Book,” and sometimes as the “Clear Register” as recorded in the Qur'an. Everything which has happened or will happen in the world is written on the Tablet and engraved on it with an engraving not witnessed by this eye, Don’t suppose that this Tablet is made of wood, or iron, or bone; or that the book is made of paper or leaves. Rather it must be definitely understood that the Tablet of God, may He be exalted, is not similar to the tablet of men, nor is the Book of God, may He be exalted, like the book of men, just as His essence and attributes are not like the essence and attributes of men. Rather if you are seeking for an example which will bring this closer to your comprehension, then take the fixing of the determined things on the preserved Tablet as analogous to the words and letter of the Quran in the brain and the heart of the one who has memorized it. These words are written on his heart as if he were reading them off, looking at them. If you were to examine his brain piece by piece you would not find a single letter of this script. In this fashion you must understand the engraving of the Preserved Tablet with every- thing which God, may He be Exalted, has decreed and determined." Frequently the soul remembers the good or evil which it did, and anticipates requital for this, and this becomes another aspect strengthening a person’s action, and God knows better. " Ihyd’ ‘Ulm al-Din, 1V (Beirut: Dar al-Ma‘rifa, 1982), 504-505. The Tablet (al-lauh) is referred to in Qur’an 85:22; the Clear Book (al-kitab al-mubin) in Qur'an 5:15, 6:59; the Clear Register (al-imam al-mubin) in Qur'an, verse 36:12.