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in
spreading and teaching this science and in making research in it, it will not endure; and if it were
completely abandoned, it would surely disappear; nor is there in human nature by itself a sufficient
ability to cut through the dubiosities of innovators unless this subject is learnt and
studied. Therefore
there should be instruction in it, and its investigation is now one of the Islamic public mandate,
contrary
to what it was at the time of the Companions when the need for it was not urgent.
If you should say this, then know that the truth of the matter is that undoubtedly there should be,
in
every town, someone who would undertake to engage in this science and take it upon himself to refute
the dubiosities of the innovators which have spread in that particular town. This undertaking is
performed through education, but it is not wise to instruct the laity in it just as they are
instructed in
jurisprudence and interpretation. For this is like a drug, and jurisprudence is like food. The harm
of food
is not dangerous but the harm of drugs is dangerous as we have already mentioned.
spreading and teaching this science and in making research in it, it will not endure; and if it were
completely abandoned, it would surely disappear; nor is there in human nature by itself a sufficient
ability to cut through the dubiosities of innovators unless this subject is learnt and
studied. Therefore
there should be instruction in it, and its investigation is now one of the Islamic public mandate,
contrary
to what it was at the time of the Companions when the need for it was not urgent.
If you should say this, then know that the truth of the matter is that undoubtedly there should be,
in
every town, someone who would undertake to engage in this science and take it upon himself to refute
the dubiosities of the innovators which have spread in that particular town. This undertaking is
performed through education, but it is not wise to instruct the laity in it just as they are
instructed in
jurisprudence and interpretation. For this is like a drug, and jurisprudence is like food. The harm
of food
is not dangerous but the harm of drugs is dangerous as we have already mentioned.