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Al-Rāzī said:

“Ninth: Allah, Most High, said to Moses and Aaron:

‘Indeed, I am with you both; I hear and I see.’ (46) [Tā Hā 46]

This being with them consists only in knowledge, protection, and mercy. These and similar expressions are among those which every rational person must acknowledge require figurative interpretation.”

He may be answered as follows: As for the expression “being with,” we have already discussed it. As for his statement that every rational person must acknowledge that these expressions require figurative interpretation, this may be answered in several ways.

First: He claimed that all the sects of Islam accept figurative interpretation of some apparent meanings in the Quran and transmitted reports. Here, however, he claims that acknowledging figurative interpretation is obligatory. But how does stating their acknowledgment of figurative interpretation amount to stating their obligation to acknowledge