was used to raise objections and make attacks, just as the mere transmission of a report does not prove that what was transmitted is true.
Let the discerning reader reflect on this kind of reasoning and discussion, for it will open doors of guidance to him. There is no power or strength except through Allah. The negationist Jahmiyyah are among those whose reasoning is most corrupt and whose ignorance is greatest, even though one of them may attain dominion and authority through force or speech, as did Pharaoh, Nimrod son of Canaan, and others like them.
This is why Allah described these people and their like as neither hearing nor reasoning. Whoever reflects on the realities will find that the closer a person is to believing what the messengers brought and acting upon it, the more complete his reasoning and hearing are; and the further he is from believing what the messengers brought and acting upon it, the more deficient his reasoning and hearing are.
There is no doubt that the positions of the advocates of negation and heresy—including those among them who profess divine indwelling and union, and others who share some of their principles that necessarily entail their negation and heresy—are among the most corrupt, false, and contradictory positions, and among those most abundantly contradicted by rational and scriptural evidence. Some of their principles would have been obscure to many believers, who therefore thought that this constituted a rational demonstration opposing the divine Quran. They did not know that rational demonstration agrees with the Quran and supports it, rather than contradicting and opposing it; nor that the evidence furnished by observable signs and horizons agrees with the Quranic evidence. For the proofs of truth are truthful witnesses and arbiters before whom nothing but the manifest truth can be established.
It is well known that the reports, testimonies, and affirmations of truthful people cooperate, reinforce, support, and assist one another; they neither contradict nor conflict. Even if it is supposed that