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(2) the Batiniyah, who consider that they, as the party of `authoritative instruction‟ (ta‟lim),
alone derive truth
from the infallible imam;
(3) the Philosophers, who regard themselves as the exponents of logic and demonstration;
(4) the Sufi or Mystics, who claim that they alone enter into the `presence‟ (sc. of Allah), and
possess vision
and intuitive understanding.
I said within myself: `The truth cannot lie outside these four classes. These are the people who
tread the
paths of the quest for truth. If the truth is not with them, no point remains in trying to
apprehend the truth.
There is certainly no point in trying to return to the level of naive and derivative belief
(taqlid) once it has
been left, since a condition of being at such a level is that one does not know one is there; when
a man
alone derive truth
from the infallible imam;
(3) the Philosophers, who regard themselves as the exponents of logic and demonstration;
(4) the Sufi or Mystics, who claim that they alone enter into the `presence‟ (sc. of Allah), and
possess vision
and intuitive understanding.
I said within myself: `The truth cannot lie outside these four classes. These are the people who
tread the
paths of the quest for truth. If the truth is not with them, no point remains in trying to
apprehend the truth.
There is certainly no point in trying to return to the level of naive and derivative belief
(taqlid) once it has
been left, since a condition of being at such a level is that one does not know one is there; when
a man