The Meaning of the Poet’s Statement: “So both of them committed the most severe crime *** committed against the Qur’an and faith”
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The Shaykh : He says:
“So both of them committed the most severe crime *** committed against the Qur’an and faith
They made the texts their goal *** and they have torn them apart with the arrows of their rambling.
Just as archers make a target to shoot at, and it gets pierced, these people made the texts a target for themselves. Because if they had denied the texts outright, they would have declared their disbelief and the community would have risen against them. But they resorted to this stratagem by what? By ta'wil (figurative interpretation), whether following the method of Ibn Sina or the method of the others, so that people would not be repelled by them and so that they would not be expelled from Islam.
“So both of them committed the most severe crime *** committed against the Qur’an and faith
They made the texts their goal *** and they have torn them apart with the arrows of their rambling.
Just as archers make a target to shoot at, and it gets pierced, these people made the texts a target for themselves. Because if they had denied the texts outright, they would have declared their disbelief and the community would have risen against them. But they resorted to this stratagem by what? By ta'wil (figurative interpretation), whether following the method of Ibn Sina or the method of the others, so that people would not be repelled by them and so that they would not be expelled from Islam.