and are like those of whom it was said:

“Or do you think that most of them hear or understand? They are only like cattle—rather, they are further astray.” (44) [al-Furqān 44]

A fuller discussion of this belongs elsewhere. The point here, however, is to highlight that these arguments advanced by the speculative theologians are sound—there is no doubt about their soundness—and that they demonstrate, in many ways, the falsity of their own position and that of the others.