Explanation of the author's statement: "Then they craft these doubts in long, ornate, and strange expressions, which the ignorant person considers to be the truth because of the decorative rhetoric draped over them
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The Shaykh :"Then they craft these doubts in long, ornate, and strange expressions, which the ignorant person considers to be the truth because of the decorative rhetoric draped over them. But when the matter is investigated, it becomes clear to him that they are invalid doubts, as it was said:
'Arguments that collapse like glass, you think them true, And every breaker is broken'.
Can glass stand up to stone or iron? No, absolutely not. In fact, it cannot even stand up to another piece of glass. Every breaker is broken. If you strike one glass with another, it breaks. Which one is the breaker, the second one? Each one is both a breaker and broken. These are the arguments of the people of falsehood; these are the arguments of the people of falsehood.
You may think it is the truth, but it is false. It collapses in the face of the truth, and each one of them breaks the other. If you went back to their books, you would find the great contradiction among them. In fact, one of them invalidates what he said before, but he invalidates it with a false argument, because he does not invalidate it with the truth. Therefore, they are all false.
'Arguments that collapse like glass, you think them true, And every breaker is broken'.
Can glass stand up to stone or iron? No, absolutely not. In fact, it cannot even stand up to another piece of glass. Every breaker is broken. If you strike one glass with another, it breaks. Which one is the breaker, the second one? Each one is both a breaker and broken. These are the arguments of the people of falsehood; these are the arguments of the people of falsehood.
You may think it is the truth, but it is false. It collapses in the face of the truth, and each one of them breaks the other. If you went back to their books, you would find the great contradiction among them. In fact, one of them invalidates what he said before, but he invalidates it with a false argument, because he does not invalidate it with the truth. Therefore, they are all false.