and similar claims—most people say that the falsity of their view is self-evident.

Likewise, the claim that accidents do not persist from one instant to the next is one that most rational people regard as self-evidently false.

The same applies to those who say that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, called the hypocrites believers and regarded their faith as equivalent to that of believers who were not hypocrites, while they would nevertheless remain in the Fire forever. Most rational Muslims know, as a matter of self-evident knowledge of the religion of Islam, that this claim is false.

Likewise, the claim that additions have been made to the glorious Quran and that things have been omitted from it is known to be self-evidently impossible in the ordinary course of events.

The Christians claim that the Word united with Christ; that it is not the Father who encompasses the hypostases, yet is nevertheless the Lord who creates and provides sustenance; and that it is a substance, although substance, according to them, is one and is none other than the Father. People regard this claim as self-evidently false.

If we were to examine such examples, we would find many of them. Indeed, the views held by numerous groups that most people regard as self-evidently false are too numerous to enumerate exhaustively. How, then, can it be said that a large body of people cannot unanimously deny what is self-evidently known?