Pen Fingers and Arm

An ant, walking on a piece of paper, saw the pen writing and began to praise the pen.
Another ant, which was more keen-sighted, said, “Praise the fingers, for I deem this accomplishment to proceed from them.”
Another ant, more clear-sighted than either, said, “I praise the arm, for the fingers are a branch of the arm,” et cetera.
A little ant saw a pen (writing) on a paper, and told this mystery to another ant, Saying, “That pen made wonderful pictures like sweet basil and beds of lilies and roses.”
The other ant said, “That artist is the finger, and this pen is actually (no more than) the derivative (instrument) and the sign.”
A third ant said, “It is the work of the arm, by whose strength the slender finger depicted it.”
In this fashion it (the argument) was carried upward till a chief of the ants, (who) was a little bit sagacious, Said, “Do not regard this accomplishment as proceeding from the (material) form, which becomes unconscious in sleep and death. Form is like a garment or a staff: (bodily) figures do not move except by means of intellect and spirit.”
He (the wise ant) was unaware that without the controlling influence of God that intellect and heart (mind) would be inert. If He withdraw His favour from it for a single moment, the acute intellect will commit (many) follies.