 In all this al-Ghazâlî accepted the unchanging character of this creation. Once God chose to create this world among alternatives, He also chose not to change the rules that govern it. While it is conceivable and therefore possible that God would break his habit or intervene in the assigned function of the secondary causes, He informs us in His revelation that He will not do so. In the 31st book of his Revival, al-Ghazâlî says that God creates all things one after the other in an orderly manner. After making clear that this order represents God’s habit (sunna), he quotes the Qur’an (33:62 and 48:23): “You will not find any change in God’s habit.” (al-Ghazâlî 1937–38, 11:2084–85.) This verse is quoted several times in the Revival; in one passage al-Ghazâlî adds that we should not think God will ever change His habit (ibid, 4:12). Prophetical miracles are merely extraordinary occurrences that take place within the system of the strictly habitual operation of God’s actions or within the “natural laws” that govern the secondary causes. Miracles are programmed into God’s plan for His creation, so to speak, from the very beginning and do not represent a direct intervention or a suspension of God’s lawful actions (Frank 1992, 59; idem, 1994, 20). Given that there will never be a break in God’s habit, an occasionalist universe will always remain indistinguishable from one governed by secondary causality.