It's amazing to me how exquisitely truth can be uttered by those who are not even heirs of the Great Truth, Jesus the Son of God. Below is a writing by an old Muslim philosopher that illustrates my point.

It's also interesting how heirs of the Truth can say all the right words, yet still be wrong.

If a tree could uproot itself from one place to another

It would never need to fear the saw, or any blows of bad luck.

Neither the sun nor the moon could lavish their light

If they stayed motionless as a rock.

How bitter the Euphrates and the Tigris would be

If they stayed in one place like the sea!

The air that stagnates in a pit becomes poisonous;

Look at how the air sickens because of inertia!

When the water of the sea travels toward the clouds

It frees itself from bitterness and acquires tender power.

When a fire stays without shooting out flames

It transforms itself to ashes, dead and destroyed.

Look how Joseph of Canaan, after leaving his father,

Went into Egypt and became famous forever.

See how Jesus, son of Marry, in his continual wanderings

Became the Water of Life and made the dead rise.

I have shown you a few signs; now, learn the rest yourself:

Accomplish the journey beyond yourself and reach God.