Let us take all this for granted also...

Let us take all this for granted also, that he not only ascended to the skies, but he traveled in company with each and every luminary, till he had become fully acquainted with their habits. Still however, his observations could not be called complete until he had studied those stars under the Earth.

In this he must take the same amount of time, that he took t in observing the heavenly stars, for the movements of the stars beneath the Earth cannot be said to be the same, and to master the science to its present accuracy of calculation he must miss no point of knowledge. To know the period of time these stars remain invisible, whether by day or by night, is very necessary; besides, the question must be settled fully and for ever as there was only one wise man to do it.

If there had been more than one wise man, they must have differed in their calculations. Now really does not strike you that it is only you who can hold the idea of a wise man, who dived down into the depths of the seas, and penetrated through the darkness of the Earth; who floated along the shies, clinging to the stars and the planets and acquiring the knowledge of their movement and doing the same to stars under the Earth!

I do not hold, said he the opinion that any man can ascend the skies, or dive to the bottom of the seas, or penetrate the interior of the Earth. As you don't hold this opinion, said I, tell me then how could the wise man (whom you think to be inventor) learn the science of Astronomy? How could he complete his researches in connection with it when he came into existence long after the creation of the stars he knew all about?

In face of your arguments he said, it does not seem prudent or wise to say that this science was invented by a being of this Earth? Then, said I, you admit that this science can only be known to one cognizant with the ins and outs of heaven well as Earth? If I do so, he said, '.I must admit Allah, who you say is the creator of heaven and earth.

Have you not told me, I asked, that the calculations based on Astronomy are perfectly correct and the birth of children correspond to certain movements of the stars? "Yes" he replied, "I have told you so, and also I have no doubt of this, but I have a doubt as to there being a creator" . That doubt will be removed, said I; have you not said that no human being can scale up to the skies, or travel in company with the movements of the Sun, moon and stars -East, West or in any direction?