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the truth about it by weighing it by the five standards which everyone who
understands them acknowledges to be the true balance on which men rely
whenever they weigh anything. The balance and the soundness of the
weighing are understood in just the same way as the student of arithmetic
understands both arithmetic and the fact that the teacher of arithmetic
knows the subject and speaks truly about it‟. I have explained that in The
just Balance in the compass of twenty pages, and it may be studied there.
My object at the moment is not to show the falsity of their views, for I have
already done so (1) in Al-Mustazhiri³, (2) in The Demonstration of Truth, a
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
understands them acknowledges to be the true balance on which men rely
whenever they weigh anything. The balance and the soundness of the
weighing are understood in just the same way as the student of arithmetic
understands both arithmetic and the fact that the teacher of arithmetic
knows the subject and speaks truly about it‟. I have explained that in The
just Balance in the compass of twenty pages, and it may be studied there.
My object at the moment is not to show the falsity of their views, for I have
already done so (1) in Al-Mustazhiri³, (2) in The Demonstration of Truth, a
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