The Significance of the Poet's Saying: "Allah is the Greatest, how many an excellent one has this bewilderment afflicted *** This abstraction from ancient times"
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The Shaykh :"Allah is the Greatest, how many an excellent one has this bewilderment afflicted *** This abstraction from ancient times"
This is correct, and it is that they judge mental hypotheses or judge existing realities by mental hypotheses, saying that a person can conceive of an essence that has no attributes and can conceive of a word that has no specific meaning. All of these are among the hypotheses that, as the author said, afflicted the scholars with calamities.
"The abstraction of words from their composition *** And likewise the abstraction of meanings, the second"
This means the abstraction of words from their composition. This is impossible. There is no word abstracted from its composition except in the case of one who brays at whom? At the animal, the sheep, and the mule. Likewise, there is no existing reality abstracted from meanings. Every existing reality must have a meaning, a description, and an existence. The existence of a reality without a meaning or description is impossible.
This is correct, and it is that they judge mental hypotheses or judge existing realities by mental hypotheses, saying that a person can conceive of an essence that has no attributes and can conceive of a word that has no specific meaning. All of these are among the hypotheses that, as the author said, afflicted the scholars with calamities.
"The abstraction of words from their composition *** And likewise the abstraction of meanings, the second"
This means the abstraction of words from their composition. This is impossible. There is no word abstracted from its composition except in the case of one who brays at whom? At the animal, the sheep, and the mule. Likewise, there is no existing reality abstracted from meanings. Every existing reality must have a meaning, a description, and an existence. The existence of a reality without a meaning or description is impossible.