our way is to arrange their doubts as much as possible then we reveal the source of the deception in them. their final claim is that the one who knows the truths of things is the one who assumes the leadership in egypt and that it is obligatory for all creation to obey him and learn from him so that they may attain happiness in this world and the hereafter. their evidence for this is their saying that everything about which the news is conceived as negation and affirmation there is truth and falsehood in it and truth is one and falsehood is what is opposite to it since not everything is truth nor is everything false. so this is an introduction.
وطريقنا ان نرتب شبههم على اقصى الإمكان ثم نكشف عن مكمن التلبيس فيها وآخر دعواهم ان العارف بحقائق الاشياء هو المتصدي للإمامة بمصر وانه يجب على كافة الخلق طاعته والتعلم منه لينالوا به سعادة الدنيا والاخرة ودليلهم عليه قولهم ان كل ما يتصور الخبر عنه بنفي وإثبات ففيه حق وباطل والحق واحد والباطل ما يقابله إذ ليس الكل حقا ولا الكل باطلا فهذه مقدمة