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reply to criticisms made against me in Baghdad, (3) in The Fundamental
Difference (between Islam and Unbelief)⁴, in twelve chapters, a reply to
criticisms made against me in Hamadan, (4) in the book of the Durj drawn up
in tabular form, which deals with the feeble criticisms of me made in Tus, and
(5) in The just Balance⁵, which is an independent work intended to show what
is the standard by which knowledge is weighed and how the man who has
comprehended this has no need of an infallible Imam.
My present aim is rather to show that the Batiniyah have nothing to cure
them or save them from the darkness of mere opinions. Their inability to
demonstrate that a specific person is Imam is not their only weakness. We
went a long way in agreeing with them; we accepted their assertion that
`instruction‟ is needed and an infallible `instructor‟; we conceded that he is the
one they specified. Yet when we asked them what knowledge they had
gained from this infallible person, and raise objections against them, they did
not understand these far less answer them, and in their perplexity had
recourse to the `hidden Imam‟ and said one must journey to see him. The
Difference (between Islam and Unbelief)⁴, in twelve chapters, a reply to
criticisms made against me in Hamadan, (4) in the book of the Durj drawn up
in tabular form, which deals with the feeble criticisms of me made in Tus, and
(5) in The just Balance⁵, which is an independent work intended to show what
is the standard by which knowledge is weighed and how the man who has
comprehended this has no need of an infallible Imam.
My present aim is rather to show that the Batiniyah have nothing to cure
them or save them from the darkness of mere opinions. Their inability to
demonstrate that a specific person is Imam is not their only weakness. We
went a long way in agreeing with them; we accepted their assertion that
`instruction‟ is needed and an infallible `instructor‟; we conceded that he is the
one they specified. Yet when we asked them what knowledge they had
gained from this infallible person, and raise objections against them, they did
not understand these far less answer them, and in their perplexity had
recourse to the `hidden Imam‟ and said one must journey to see him. The