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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'i and all the good, early generation were forbidden from engaging
in
disputation and devoting themselves exclusively to it, because of the harm inherent in it which we
have
already pointed out. The reports of ibn Abbas' debate with the Kharijites and Ali's debate
concerning free
will was of the clear and intelligent kind, carried out at the time of need. Such disputation is
praiseworthy under all conditions.
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'i and all the good, early generation were forbidden from engaging
in
disputation and devoting themselves exclusively to it, because of the harm inherent in it which we
have
already pointed out. The reports of ibn Abbas' debate with the Kharijites and Ali's debate
concerning free
will was of the clear and intelligent kind, carried out at the time of need. Such disputation is
praiseworthy under all conditions.