The Meccan Revelations
Quotations
Read the surrounding argument before quoting an isolated sentence.
Then he said, if a thing is found in his eye, it is permissible for the one with the eye to see it with his eye restricted to his visible face, eyelid, and so on. Then there is a reason that necessitates seeing in the doctrine of most Ash’arites except existence with structure and without structure, and structure is necessary, and if seeing affects what is seen, we would make it permissible, for the requirements are clear. With its evidence, as we mentioned, then he prayed and greeted after he had praised and sat down, and those present thanked him for his brevity in the phrase and his elaboration of the meanings in the precise reference.
Then he said that it is necessary for a ruling to be necessitated by a meaning, just as it is necessary for a meaning that does not by itself constitute the summoning of a singer. So, you debater, how much do you meander? This is only because of your fear of the number, and this does not invalidate the reality of the one and the one. If you knew that the number is the one, you would not begin to dispute with anyone. This has revealed the predicate, the incidental and the necessary, in the division of these features, and then it sat