happen to be available to them among the three paths to faith.

I say: This discussion contains some sound points and some unsound aims, but this is not the place to discuss it.

He then said: “As for matters which, in their view, can be known only through demonstration because of their obscurity, Allah has graciously made provision for His servants concerning them. For those who have no access to demonstration—whether because of their innate dispositions, their habits, or their lack of the means of learning—He has set forth analogies and likenesses of these matters and called upon them to assent to those analogies, since assent to them is possible through arguments accessible to everyone, namely dialectical and rhetorical arguments. This is why religious law is divided into an outward and an inward aspect. The outward aspect consists of the analogies set forth