The Conclusive Argument — Page 38
38 You fear not the claws of the lion and wander like the blind and the one-eyed. I have exposed your darkness and torn your writing to shreds, and you will soon realize it. Do you, like the ignorant and shameless, believe that Jesus is alive, and consider him to be exempt from the dead? You have not offered any evidence from the bayyin a t [clear and perspicuous Quranic verses] and mu h kam a t [explicit and deci- sive verses] nor from any a ha d i th of the Best of Creation which possess numerous uninterrupted chains. And so—O ye whose speech is in vain!—you lied in order to estab- lish your claim and deviated from the fundamentals of Islamic law. O reckless ignoramus! O reproached miscreant! Pause and think seri- ously with reason. You have not advanced any argument in favour of your claim regarding Jesus’ life. You have simply followed conjec- tures—nay, rather, superstitions. The conclusion of a problem can- not exceed its premises. When two premises are hypothetical, their ظالمك، كشفنا وإنّا والعُور، ومزّقنا الكمك، وستعرف بعد المسیح بحیاة أتؤمن حین. وتحسبه الوقیح، كالجهول كأنه استُثْنِي َ من االٔموات، وما أقمت علیه دلیال من البیّنات والمحكمات، وال من االٔحادیث المتواترة من خیر الكائنات، إ ثبات، ال فكذبت َ في دعوی ا وباعدت َ عن أصول الفقه یا الجهول أیها الترهات. أخا المعذول، المخطي العجول، قِف ْ وفكِّر ْ برزانة الحصاة، ما أوردت َ دلیال علی دعوی الحیاة، وما اتبعت َ إال الظنیات، بل إ شكال ال ال الوهمیات. ونتیجة ا یزید علی المقدّمات، فإذا كانت