... demand the freedom of his people. To prove his point, Moses threw his wooden stick on the ground, whereupon it turned into a serpent. While it didn't fully convince the Pharaoh, it certainly gave him reason to take what Moses was saying seriously.idea,2 al-Ghazali asks us to imagine ourselves in a situation somewhat similar to Pharaoh's. Imagine someone tells you that one of your beliefs is false, and then, as a proof of their greater power and comprehension into such matters, turning a stick into a snake. Which of your beliefs would you reconsider in such circumstances? In the end, al-Ghazali concludes that mathematical truths and basic sensations would be immune to this challenge. Suppose, for instance, a man should come and say to me, who am firmly convinced that ten is more than three, "No; on the contrary, three is more than ten, and, to prove it, I change ...

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