The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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Beware of disputing in any aspect of religion, which is debate, for it is not without one of two things: either you are right or wrong, as the jurists of our time do today in their debate sessions, intending in doing so to fertilize their thoughts. The debater may adhere to a doctrine or word that he does not believe in. He is not satisfied with it while the one who has the right to argue with it, whom he believes is right, then the soul deceives him in that by saying to him, “We only do that to satisfy the mind, not to establish falsehood.” And he does not know that God is on the tongue of every speaker, and that if the common man hears his statement of falsehood and it appears to the one who has the right, while he is with him, then he is a jurist. The common man, the imitator, acted on that falsehood because he saw that it appeared in the character of truth and the inability of the possessor of the truth to resist it. He still clings to it as long as this listener acts acco


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