and to claim that whoever affirms it thereby gives creation an argument against the Creator. Likewise, we have found many of the Shia fabricating arguments for themselves and placing them on the tongue of some Jew, so that the Ahl al-Sunnah may be told, “Answer this Jew!” By doing so, the fabricator targets those ignorant commoners who do not know how to expose the fallacy of that argument.

[A Refutation of the Rafidi’s Claim Concerning the Disagreement That Occurred During the Prophet’s Illness—may Allah bless him and grant him peace]

As for the statement:

“The source of corruption, after Iblis’s specious argument, was the disagreement that occurred during the Prophet’s illness—may Allah bless him and grant him peace.”

This is one of the most blatant [lies] (1)—a patent falsehood. If he means that this was the first sin ever committed, this is plainly false. If he means that this was the first disagreement to occur after that specious argument, this is false for several reasons:

First, Iblis’s specious argument caused no disagreement among the angels, nor did human beings hear it from him such that it could cause disagreement among them.

Second, disagreement has existed among the children of Adam since the time of Noah, and the disagreements among people before the Muslims were far greater than those among the Muslims.

Allah Most High says:

“Humanity was one community. Then Allah sent the prophets as bearers of glad tidings and as warners, and He sent down with them the Book in truth, to judge between people concerning that wherein they differed. None differed over it except those who had been given it, after clear proofs had come to them, out of mutual transgression. Then Allah, by His leave, guided those who believed to the truth concerning that wherein they differed. Allah guides whom He wills to a straight path.” [Surah al-Baqara: 213]

Ibn Abbas said, “Between Adam