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there is not to be excused. How then is a man to proceed?” I reply: “The
fundamental beliefs are contained in the Book and the Prophetic practice;
in questions of detail and other disputed matters outside these
fundamentals the truth is known by weighing them in “the just balance”,
that is, the standards set forth by Allah most high in His Book; and they are
five in number as I show in The Just Balance.

It may be said to me: “Your adversaries do not agree with you about the
standard.” I reply: “It is not to be imagined that anyone who understands
that standard should be in disagreement about it. The Ta`limiyah will not
disagree about it, because I have inferred it from the Koran and learned it
there; the logicians will not disagree about it because it is in accordance,
not in disagreement, with the conditions they lay down in logic; the
theologians will not disagree about it because it is in accordance with their
views about the proof of speculative propositions and provides a criterion
of the truth of theological assertions”.

My adversary may say: “If you have in your hand a standard such as this,
why do you not remove the disagreement among mankind?” I reply: “If they