or it may be false. Suspicion has a recognized ruling in Islamic law, whereby a person whose circumstances are unknown is detained on its basis, as in the hadith narrated by Bahz ibn Hakīm, from his father, from his grandfather:

“The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, detained someone on suspicion.”

For this reason, al-Hārith al-Muhāsibī composed a book entitled Kitāb al-Tawahhum (The Book of Visualization). Its subject is mentally picturing what Allah has revealed about the Hereafter and other matters, so that one may remember them and inwardly grasp their reality. When a generic term encompasses two kinds, one nobler than the other, they may reserve