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must be interpreted figuratively.
He may be answered: Rather, this is one of the reports accepted by those who accept comparable reports, and the dispute over it is like the dispute over those reports. Your claim that it must be interpreted figuratively, without an argument specific to it, is therefore invalid. For if you cite the argument you invoke to establish that His creating with His two hands, His placing His foot, and the like must be interpreted figuratively
لابد فيه من التأويل يقال له بل هذا من الأخبار التي يقره من يقر نظيره والنزاع فيه كالنزاع في نظيره فدعواك أنه لابد فيه من التأويل بلا حجة تخصه لا يصح فإنك إن ذكرت الحجة التي تذكرها على وجوب تأويل خلقه بيديه ووضعه قدمه ونحو