they go to extremes in hunting down the Jews and punishing them during the closing days of their fast—days that correspond to the days of the Crucifixion. Now, if those Jews were sinners against God, was He able to keep them from that sin or not? If He was unable, then He is likewise unable to prevent Iblis from wronging mankind in the future. But if He was able to restrain them and yet did not, then He could just as easily have restrained Iblis without any such stratagem. And if it was good on His part to let them fall into that sin, it is equally good for Him to let Iblis oppress Adam’s progeny, past and future; hence the stratagem they imagine is needless.
Know that the proofs of the invalidity of the Christians’ religion are exceedingly many; whenever a rational person considers their doctrine and the consequences that flow from it, its falsehood becomes evident. What concerns us here, however, is to expose their self-contradiction: they excuse themselves from believing in His Book, His Messenger, and His religion on the pretext that God—exalted be He—is just and does not command people to do what lies beyond their capacity, even though He has only charged them with what they are able to do. Yet they have attributed to Him an injustice such as no human being has ever ascribed to Him. This is made clear by the next point.
Eleventh argument:
Either one must adopt the view of the Jahmī determinists, who say that He does whatever He wills without wisdom or cause,