Sol 5.6

  1. God created an intellect for the morally accountable person;

    so why does it wander through every valley?

  2. The soul’s snare is never hidden from the intel—

    —lect; how, then, could it fall into fetters?

  3. The intellect penetrates where the spe—

    —ar cannot, and races ahead of swift steeds.

  4. No gate can turn minds away from the tru—

    —th, nor do they yield beneath adversity’s blows.

  5. How could radiant insights stumble

    short of perceiving the shining lights of right guidance?

  6. An army may fail before a grave task—yet how often

    has one discerning man scattered the foremost ranks!

  7. We cannot fathom the consequences, except

    that the intellect finds a passage through calamities.

Sol 5.6