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full and that the intellect neither comprehends all it attempts to know nor solves
all its problems. The heresy of the Ta`limiyah had already appeared and
everyone was speaking about their talk of gaining knowledge of the meaning of
things from an infallible Imam who has charge of the truth. It had already
occurred to me to study their views and become acquainted with what is in their
books, when I received a definite command from His Majesty the Caliph to write
a book exposing their religious system. The fact that I could not excuse myself
from doing this was an external motive reinforcing my original impulse. I began to
search for their books and collect their doctrines. There had already come to my
ears some of their innovated utterances, the product of the thoughts of
contemporary members of the sect, which differed from the familiar formulations
of their predecessors.
I made a collection of these utterances, arranged them in logical order and
formulated them correctly. I also gave a complete answer to them. Consequently,
some of the orthodox (Ahl al-Haqq) criticized me for my painstaking restatement
of their arguments. “You are doing their work for them”, they said, “for they would
not uphold their system in with these dubious and ambiguous utterances had you
not restated them and put them in order”.
all its problems. The heresy of the Ta`limiyah had already appeared and
everyone was speaking about their talk of gaining knowledge of the meaning of
things from an infallible Imam who has charge of the truth. It had already
occurred to me to study their views and become acquainted with what is in their
books, when I received a definite command from His Majesty the Caliph to write
a book exposing their religious system. The fact that I could not excuse myself
from doing this was an external motive reinforcing my original impulse. I began to
search for their books and collect their doctrines. There had already come to my
ears some of their innovated utterances, the product of the thoughts of
contemporary members of the sect, which differed from the familiar formulations
of their predecessors.
I made a collection of these utterances, arranged them in logical order and
formulated them correctly. I also gave a complete answer to them. Consequently,
some of the orthodox (Ahl al-Haqq) criticized me for my painstaking restatement
of their arguments. “You are doing their work for them”, they said, “for they would
not uphold their system in with these dubious and ambiguous utterances had you
not restated them and put them in order”.