The Meaning of the Poet's Saying: What can be said to one who is like him *** In the negation, for they are both equal, and the difference is not possible for you after *** you have resembled this negation in its falsity
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The Shaykh :"What can be said to one who is like him *** In the negation, for they are both equal"
This is correct. It means that if someone says, "It is not inside the world and not outside it," what can you say to the one who said, "It is not independent of itself and not dependent on another"? You can never refute them, because if you refute them, they will say to you: if what I am saying is possible, then what you are saying is also impossible.
"And the difference is not possible for you after *** you have resembled this negation in its falsity
The measure of this negation is what you have said *** Letter for letter: you two are twins" ... It is now clear. The speech now interweaves between these groups and those groups: between those who say it is possible that it is not inside the world and not outside it, and those who say it is not possible to say that it is not independent of itself and not dependent on another.
This is correct. It means that if someone says, "It is not inside the world and not outside it," what can you say to the one who said, "It is not independent of itself and not dependent on another"? You can never refute them, because if you refute them, they will say to you: if what I am saying is possible, then what you are saying is also impossible.
"And the difference is not possible for you after *** you have resembled this negation in its falsity
The measure of this negation is what you have said *** Letter for letter: you two are twins" ... It is now clear. The speech now interweaves between these groups and those groups: between those who say it is possible that it is not inside the world and not outside it, and those who say it is not possible to say that it is not independent of itself and not dependent on another.