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representations as allegories denoting mental and spiritual
pain, and mental and spiritual delight. They deny the resurrection
of the body but believe in the immortality of the
soul and that it will be punished or made happy by punishment
and delight of non-sensual nature. They are extremists.
The true middle-road (called Asharia after Imam Abul Hasan Al
Ashari) between this complete allegorism and the rigidity of
the Hanbalites is subtle and obscure. It is found only by
those who enjoy Divine Guidance and comprehend things by the
aid of Divine Light, not by hearsay. Then when the mysteries
of things are revealed to them, so that they see them as they
are, they go back to the Koran and prophetic quotations
and their wording; whatever agrees with what they see with the
light of certainty they affirm, and whatever disagrees with
pain, and mental and spiritual delight. They deny the resurrection
of the body but believe in the immortality of the
soul and that it will be punished or made happy by punishment
and delight of non-sensual nature. They are extremists.
The true middle-road (called Asharia after Imam Abul Hasan Al
Ashari) between this complete allegorism and the rigidity of
the Hanbalites is subtle and obscure. It is found only by
those who enjoy Divine Guidance and comprehend things by the
aid of Divine Light, not by hearsay. Then when the mysteries
of things are revealed to them, so that they see them as they
are, they go back to the Koran and prophetic quotations
and their wording; whatever agrees with what they see with the
light of certainty they affirm, and whatever disagrees with