What is the meaning of the author's statement, "since it is not that our imitating them is more likely than their imitating us"?
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The reader: But what is the meaning of his statement, "since it is not that our imitating them is more likely than their imitating us"?
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly. Because we do not know now whether it was us who did it first, in which case they imitated us, or whether it was them who did it first, in which case we imitated them. So neither of us is more likely to be the imitator than the other.
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly. Because we do not know now whether it was us who did it first, in which case they imitated us, or whether it was them who did it first, in which case we imitated them. So neither of us is more likely to be the imitator than the other.