Al-Qawl al-Mufid ala Kitab al-Tawhid — Volume 2 (القول المفيد على كتاب التوحيد) — Page 62

Line-by-line translation · المعاني

الْمُزَوِّرُونَ أَنَّ لَهُ وَلَدًا مَدْفُونًا إِلَى جَانِبِهِ فِي دِمَشْقَ، فَهَذَا غَيْرُ صَحِيحٍ.

The forgers claim that he has a son buried beside him in Damascus, but this is not true.

وَظَاهِرُ كَلَامِ الشَّيْخِ: أَنَّ شَيْخَ الْإِسْلَامِ جَزَمَ بِهَذِهِ، وَلَكِنَّ شَيْخَ الْإِسْلَامِ قَالَ: وَقِيلَ الْعَرَّافُ، وَذَكَرَهُ بِقِيلَ، وَمَعْلُومٌ أَنَّ مَا ذُكِرَ بِقِيلَ لَيْسَ مِمَّا يُجْزَمُ بِأَنَّ النَّاقِلَ يَقُولُ بِهِ صَحِيحٌ أَنَّهُ إِذَا نَقَلَهُ وَلَمْ يَنْقُضْهُ، فَهَذَا دَلِيلٌ عَلَى أَنَّهُ ارْتَضَاهُ.

The apparent meaning of the Sheikh's words is that Sheikh al-Islam asserted this, but Sheikh al-Islam said: 'It is said: the soothsayer,' and he mentioned it using the phrase 'it is said.' It is known that what is mentioned with 'it is said' is not something that one can definitively say the narrator holds as his own view, although it is true that if he narrates it and does not refute it, this is evidence that he approves of it.

وَعَلَى كُلِّ حَالٍ فَشَيْخُ الْإِسْلَامِ سَاقَ هَذَا الْقَوْلَ وَارْتَضَاهُ ثُمَّ قَالَ: وَلَوْ قِيلَ: إِنَّهُ اسْمٌ خَاصٌّ لِبَعْضِ هَؤُلَاءِ الرَّمَّالِ وَالْمُنَجِّمِ وَنَحْوِهِمْ، فَإِنَّهُمْ يَدْخُلُونَ فِيهِ بِالْعُمُومِ الْمَعْنَوِيِّ؛ لِأَنَّ عِنْدَنَا عُمُومًا مَعْنَوِيًّا، وَهُوَ مَا ثَبَتَ عَنْ طَرِيقِ الْقِيَاسِ، وَعُمُومًا لَفْظِيًّا، وَهُوَ مَا دَلَّ عَلَيْهِ اللَّفْظُ بِحَيْثُ يَكُونُ اللَّفْظُ شَامِلًا، وَدَلَالَتُهُ عَلَى النَّظِيرِ يُسَمَّى عُمُومًا مَعْنَوِيًّا، لِاتِّفَاقِهِمَا فِي الْعِلَّةِ الشَّامِلَةِ لِهَذَا وَلِهَذَا.

In any case, Sheikh al-Islam presented this statement and approved of it, then said: 'Even if it were said that it is a specific name for some of these sand-diviners, astrologers, and the like, they are included in it by way of conceptual generality.' This is because we have conceptual generality, which is what is established by way of analogy, and verbal generality, which is what the wording indicates such that the wording is comprehensive. Its indication of a counterpart is called conceptual generality, due to their agreement in the cause that encompasses both this and that.

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Vocabulary · المفردات (23 verbs · 58 nouns)

• زَوَّرَ — to forge
• دَفَنَ — to bury
• جَزَمَ — to decide
• مُزَوِّر — forger
• وَلَد — boy
• جَانِب — side