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is that he did not persist in that view, but definitively renounced it and firmly affirmed the universal resurrection upheld by Muslims, as proclaimed in the Book. As for his statement that this is the view of many Sufis, there is no doubt that among Sufis, jurists, and others there are both people of consummate truthfulness and heretics.
فيه أنه لم يستمر على ذلك بل رجع عنه قطعًا وجزم بما عليه المسلمون من القيامة العامة كما أخبر به الكتاب وأما ذكره أن هذا قول كثير من المتصوفة فلا ريب أن في المتصوفة والمتفقهة وغيرهما من هو صديق ومن هو زنديق