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to externals differ from those who have insight, and in
it the disagreement between the visible and the invisible becomes
evident.
.4INTERPRETATION AND ABSTENTION WITH SUBMISSION
In this connection people are either extremists or followers
of the middle-road. As extremists, some have gone so far in
the (allegorical) interpretation of words that they have explained
away all or most of their outward and literal meaning.
They have taken the Words of Allah, "Their hands will speak
to and their legs will testify to their earnings." (Ch.36:65
Koran) as well as, "'Why did you bear witness against us',
they will say to their skins, and their skins will reply:
it the disagreement between the visible and the invisible becomes
evident.
.4INTERPRETATION AND ABSTENTION WITH SUBMISSION
In this connection people are either extremists or followers
of the middle-road. As extremists, some have gone so far in
the (allegorical) interpretation of words that they have explained
away all or most of their outward and literal meaning.
They have taken the Words of Allah, "Their hands will speak
to and their legs will testify to their earnings." (Ch.36:65
Koran) as well as, "'Why did you bear witness against us',
they will say to their skins, and their skins will reply: