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to him and asked: "Who am I?" He replied, "You are Hafs al-Fard
-may Allah neither protect you nor take you under His
auspices until you repent of your sins." He added: "If people
only but knew what predilections lurk in scholastic theology
they would run away from it as they would run away from
a lion." And added, "Whenever I hear a man say that the "name"
is "the named" or different from "the named"I
bear witness that he is one of the people of scholastic theology
and that he has no religion".
Al Za'farani related that al Shafi' once said, "My judgment concerning
the scholastic theologians is that they should be
beaten with palm branches and carried in that condition among
the tribes and clans. While pronouncing "this is the penalty
of those who desert the Koran and the prophetic sayings and
-may Allah neither protect you nor take you under His
auspices until you repent of your sins." He added: "If people
only but knew what predilections lurk in scholastic theology
they would run away from it as they would run away from
a lion." And added, "Whenever I hear a man say that the "name"
is "the named" or different from "the named"I
bear witness that he is one of the people of scholastic theology
and that he has no religion".
Al Za'farani related that al Shafi' once said, "My judgment concerning
the scholastic theologians is that they should be
beaten with palm branches and carried in that condition among
the tribes and clans. While pronouncing "this is the penalty
of those who desert the Koran and the prophetic sayings and