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be greater than those which he would reform.
When you know these divisions you would realize that, in disputation
the praiseworthy argument is of the same kind as the
arguments of the Koran, kind words which influence the hearts
and convince the minds without going deeply into reasoning
and analyses which most people do not understand; and whenever
they understand them they consider them trickeries and
artifices which their proponent has learnt in order to make
things ambiguous. Should he be confronted by one of his professional
colleagues he would resist him.
You will also know that al Shafi' and all the good, early generation
were forbidden from engaging in disputation and devoting
themselves exclusively to it, because of the harm inherent
When you know these divisions you would realize that, in disputation
the praiseworthy argument is of the same kind as the
arguments of the Koran, kind words which influence the hearts
and convince the minds without going deeply into reasoning
and analyses which most people do not understand; and whenever
they understand them they consider them trickeries and
artifices which their proponent has learnt in order to make
things ambiguous. Should he be confronted by one of his professional
colleagues he would resist him.
You will also know that al Shafi' and all the good, early generation
were forbidden from engaging in disputation and devoting
themselves exclusively to it, because of the harm inherent