A
- Qur'anic standard. The
intellectual criteria and parables set in the Qur'an to reveal the truth, and
the ways to know similarity and difference, the Almighty Allah says:
"Shall We then treat the Muslims
like the Mujrimoon [criminals, polytheists, disbelievers etc.]? What is the
matter with you? How judge you?" [Qur'an, 68:35-36]
B
- The standard of the greater reason. This means to confirm a statement or a
quality to something on the basis that it is confirmed to its equal, or when
there is a greater reason to do that by analogy, as the Qur'an has proved
Resurrection in the following verse:
"And he puts forth for Us a
parable, and forgets his own creation. He says: "Who will give life to
these bones after they are rotten and have become dust?" Say: [O Muhammad]
"He will give life to them Who created them for the first time! And He is
the All-Knower of every creation!" [Qur'an, 36:78-79]
The Qur'an also used the standard of the
greater reason as regards the divine qualities. It confirms for Allah subhanahu
wa ta`ala all the perfection that is possible for man and deems Him far above
any defect confirmed for man. When the polytheists said that the Almighty Allah
has daughters when at the same time they hated having daughters, the Qur'an
says:
"Have you then considered Al-Lat
and Al-`Uzza [two idols of the pagan Arabs]? And Manat [another idol of the
pagan Arabs], the other third? Is it fo you the males and for Him the
females?" [Qur'an, 53:19-21]
The Qur'an also uses this method to
prove the Oneness of Allah, subhanahu wa ta`ala. Allah says:
"He sets for you a parable from
your own selves: Do you have partners among those whom your right hand posses
[i.e. your slaves] to share as equals in the wealth We bestowed on you whom you
fear as you fear each other....?" [Qur'an, 30:28]
The man among them would not accept to
have his slave as equal partner in his wealth, then how can man accept that the
created slave be partner to Allah, subhanahu wa ta`ala, in godship and in the
right of worship?
C –
Exigency. Whoever
knows that something is necessary for the realisation of another uses the
result to prove the thing that is necessary. This is clear in the following
Qur'anic verse:
"Were they created by nothing? Or
were they themselves the creators?" [Qur'an 52:35]
No one of a good natural disposition can
allege that things can happen without an author or by themselves.
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