‘We have come to you, we have come to you;
Greetings to us and to you.’”

It has already been explained that what is specific is not made [general].

The arguments in this matter and similar matters rest either on a false analogy—likening something to what is unlike it—or on treating the specific as general, which is also a form of false analogy, or on appealing to what constitutes no evidence at all.

Abū al-Qāsim then advanced an argument of the same kind: a false analogy. He cited the hadith of al-Barā’ ibn ‘Āzib, who said: “I heard the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, say: ‘Beautify the Quran with your voices, for a beautiful voice adds to the Quran’s beauty.’” He also cited a hadith narrated from Anas and traced back to the Prophet: “Everything has an adornment, and the adornment of the Quran is the voice.”