the third answer to their saying that the majority is a sign of falsehood is that our school of thought is one and there is no majority in it. rather the majority is in the people who agreed on an issue and then differed on issues. so why did they confront this with the majority in answering the issue which is in our saying how many are five and five? rather his opinion in the school of thought is to issue a fatwa on a single issue with many contradictory fatwas. in that case it is said that the majority is evidence of falsehood and we do not issue a fatwa on everything. the issue is that there is only one god and muhammad may god bless him and grant him peace is his messenger and he is truthful and supported by miracles. so this is a single fatwa so let it be true. if it is false then it is in accordance with their doctrine. and our saying that the consideration of the mind is a path that leads to the realization of what cannot be comprehended by necessity is a single doctrine with no multiplicity in it so let it be true just as our saying that the mathematical sciences are true sciences is a single saying and it was true. and one should be amazed at their distance in deception since they took the word multiplicity which is word
الجواب الثالث عن قولهم إن الكثرة أمارة الباطل فمذهبنا واحد لا كثرة فيه وانما الكثرة في الاشخاص الذين اجتمعوا على مسألة ثم افترقوا في مسائل فلم قابلوا هذا بكثرة في جواب المسألة وهو في قولنا كم الخمسة والخمسة بل ورأيه في المذهب أن يفتي في مسألة واحدة بفتاوي كثيرة متناقضة فعند ذلك يقال الكثرة دليل الباطل ولسنا نفتي في كل مسألة الا بواحد فإنا نقول الله واحد ومحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم رسوله وهو صادق ومؤيد بالمعجزة فهذه فتوى واحدة فلتكن حقا وان كان باطلا فهو موافق لمذهبهم وقولنا ان نظر العقل طريق يوصل الى درك ما لا يدرك اضطرارا مذهب واحد لا كثرة فيه فليكن حقا كما أن قولنا العلوم الحسابية علوم صادقة قول واحد وكان حقا وليتعجب من ابعادهم في التلبيس إذ أخذوا لفظة الكثرة وهي لفظة