this is what was narrated from their school of thought and other matters that are more obscene than what we have mentioned. we did not see the need to blacken the blank by transmitting them nor to clarify the way to respond to them for two reasons one of them is that those who are deceived by their deception and falsehood and those who hang on the rope of their deception in our time did not hear this from them so they deny all of that when it is narrated from their school of thought and they say to themselves that these people only disagreed because they do not have the truth of our school of thought and if they knew it they would agree with us on it. so we see that we should occupy ourselves with responding to them in what their word agrees upon which is invalidating the opinion and the call. to learn from the infallible imam this is the mainstay of their belief and the cream of their churning so let us turn our attention to it. anything other than that is in line with the delirium of apparent falsehood and with the blasphemy stolen from the dualists and the magians in saying about the two gods with the replacement of the expression of light and darkness with the previous and the subsequent to a misguidance taken from the words of the philosophers in their saying that the first principle is the cause of the existence of the mind by way of necessity from it not by way of intention and choice and that it occurred from itself without an intermediary other than it. yes they establish eternal existences some of which are necessary from others. they call them minds and attribute the existence of every sphere to one of those minds in a long confusion of theirs. we have thoroughly discussed the way to respond to them in this regard in the art of rhetoric and we will not deal in this book with anything except what pertains to this group which is invalidating the opinion and establishing the teaching.
فهذا ما حكي من مذهبهم الى امور اخر هي افحش مما ذكرناه لم نر تسويد البياض بنقلها ولا تبيان وجه الرد عليها لمعنيين احدهما أن المنخدعين بخداعهم وزورهم والمتدلين بحبل غرورهم في عصرنا هذا لم يسمعوا هذا منهم فينكرون جميع ذلك إذا حكى من مذهبهم ويحدثون في انفسهم أن هؤلاء انما خالفوا لانه ليس عندهم حقيقة مذهبنا ولو عرفوها لوافقونا عليها فنرى ان نشتغل بالرد عليهم فيما اتفقت كلمتهم وهو إبطال الرأي والدعوة الى التعلم من الامام المعصوم فهذه عمدة معتقدهم وزبدة مخضهم فلنصرف العناية اليه وما عداه فمنسقم الى هذيان ظاهر البطلان وإلى كفر مسترق من الثنوية والمجوس في القول بالالهين مع تبديل عبارة النور والظلمة ب السابق والتالي الى ضلال منتزع من كلام الفلاسفة في قولهم ان المبدأ الاول علة لوجود العقل على سبيل اللزوم عنه لا على سبيل القصد والاختيار وانه حصل من ذاته بغير واسطة سواه نعم يثبتون موجودات قديمة يلزم بعضها عن بعض ويسمونها عقولا ويحيلون وجود كل فلك على عقل من تلك العقول في خبط لهم طويل قد استقصينا وجه الرد عليهم في ذك في فن الكلام ولسنا نشتغل في هذا الكتاب الا يما يخص هذه الفرقة وهو إبطال الرأي واثبات التعليم