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You Will Find That There Is No Other Difference Of Opinion As Regards Any Portions Of The Universe, Except That The Philosophers Believe In The Eternity Of The Universe And We Believe In The Creation. Note This.

All This Is Applicable To The Intellectual Faculties Of Man. There Is A Considerable Difference Between One Person And Another As Regards These Faculties, As Is Well Known To Philosophers.

The Mutakallemim... Apply The Term Non-existence Only To Absolute Non-existence, And Not To Absence Of Properties. A Property And The Absence Of That Property Are Considered By Them As Two Opposites, They Treat, E.g. , Blindness And Sight, Death And Life, In The Same Way As Heat And Cold. Therefore They Say, Without Any Qualification, Non-existence Does Not Require Any Agent, An Agent Is Required When Something Is Produced.

The Whole Object Of The Prophets And The Sages Was To Declare That A Limit Is Set To Human Reason Where It Must Halt.

Give A Man A Fish And You Feed Him For A Day; Teach A Man To Fish And You Feed Him For A Lifetime.