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not specify the topic about which he is in doubt, it may be said to him, `You are
like a sick man who says, `I am sick‟, without specifying his disease, and yet asks
for a remedy; he has to be told, `There does not exist⁻ any remedy for disease in
general but only for specific diseases like headache, diarrhea, and so forth‟ „.
Similarly the man in doubt must specify what he is in doubt about. If he specifies
the topic, I show him the truth about it by weighing it by the five standards which
everyone who understands them acknowledges to be the true balance on which
men rely whenever they weigh anything. The balance and the soundness of the
weighing are understood in just the same way as the student of arithmetic
understands both arithmetic and the fact that the teacher of arithmetic knows the
subject and speaks truly about it‟. I have explained that in The just Balance in the
compass of twenty pages, and it may be studied there.
My object at the moment is not to show the falsity of their views, for I have
already done so (1) in Al-Mustazhiri³, (2) in The Demonstration of Truth, a reply
to criticisms made against me in Baghdad, (3) in The Fundamental Difference
(between Islam and Unbelief)⁴, in twelve chapters, a reply to criticisms made
3[5] This book is available in Arabic as well as in an English translation by R. McCarthy on
like a sick man who says, `I am sick‟, without specifying his disease, and yet asks
for a remedy; he has to be told, `There does not exist⁻ any remedy for disease in
general but only for specific diseases like headache, diarrhea, and so forth‟ „.
Similarly the man in doubt must specify what he is in doubt about. If he specifies
the topic, I show him the truth about it by weighing it by the five standards which
everyone who understands them acknowledges to be the true balance on which
men rely whenever they weigh anything. The balance and the soundness of the
weighing are understood in just the same way as the student of arithmetic
understands both arithmetic and the fact that the teacher of arithmetic knows the
subject and speaks truly about it‟. I have explained that in The just Balance in the
compass of twenty pages, and it may be studied there.
My object at the moment is not to show the falsity of their views, for I have
already done so (1) in Al-Mustazhiri³, (2) in The Demonstration of Truth, a reply
to criticisms made against me in Baghdad, (3) in The Fundamental Difference
(between Islam and Unbelief)⁴, in twelve chapters, a reply to criticisms made
3[5] This book is available in Arabic as well as in an English translation by R. McCarthy on