others are guided to the proper distinction. Scholars possess the insight that removes this confusion. For example, when some people equate what they have been promised in the Hereafter with what they witness in this world, imagining the two to be identical, the scholars know that they are not the same, even though they may resemble each other in certain respects.

Of the same kind are the specious doubts that mislead some people—instances in which truth becomes mixed with falsehood until the two seem indistinguishable to some. Whoever has been granted the knowledge that separates one from the other will never mistake truth for falsehood.

Faulty analogy falls under this very category of ambiguities, for it likens a thing—in one of its aspects—to something to which it is not truly comparable. Anyone who understands the dividing line between the two is guided to the distinction that eliminates both the confusion and the invalid analogy.