THE PARABLE OF THE EYE OF THE SQUINT-EYED

THE PARABLE OF THE EYE OF THE SQUINT-EYED

Now let's take a look at a sacred Islamic text on just this question.

Excerpt from THE ENCLOSED GARDEN OF THE TRUTH

EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY J. STEPHENSON,
[1910]

A squint-eyed son asked his father, O thou whose words are as a key to the things that are locked up, why saidst thou that a squinter sees double? I see no more things than there are; if a squint-eyed person counted things crookedly, the two moons that are in the heavens would seem four.

But he who spoke thus spoke in error; for if a squinter looks at a dome, it is doubled.