the truth is sufficient for us in most matters for the sum of the histories and news that were and will be until the world is extinct or that are existing and taking place in the world today is spoken of explicitly and proven and the truth is one and we have no need to know it. this is like the saying of the one who says is the king of rome now standing or not? the truth is one of them without a doubt. what is beneath my feet of the earth after passing five cubits is stone or dirt with worms in it or not? the truth is one of them without a doubt. the size of the suns sphere or saturns and their distance is a hundred parasangs or not? the truth is one of them. and so the areas of mountains and countries the number of animals on land and sea and the number of sands all of these have truth and falsehood and there is no need to know them. rather the famous sciences of grammar poetry medicine philosophy theology and others have truth and falsehood and we do not need most of what has been said about them. rather what we accept as indispensable to knowing are two issues the existence of the creator most high and the truthfulness of the messenger may god bless him and grant him peace. this is indispensable. then if the truthfulness of the messenger is proven then the rest is related to him by imitation. or knowledge by a continuous report or belief by a single report. this is from the sciences that is sufficient in this world and the hereafter and what is other than it is unnecessary. as for the existence of the creator and the truthfulness of the messenger the way to know it is to look at creation until one can use it as evidence of the creator and at the miracle until one can use it as evidence of the truthfulness of the messenger. there is no need for an infallible teacher in these two because people are divided into two groups a group who believed in it by imitation and hearing from their parents and they were determined upon it concluding with it and uttering their words there is no god. except for god muhammad is the messenger of god may god bless him and grant him peace without searching for the evidential methods. these are the true muslims and that belief is sufficient for them and there is nothing wrong with them.
الحق بنا غنية عن معرفته في أكثر الامور فإن جملة التواريخ والاخبار التي كانت وستكون الى منقرض العالم او هي كائنة واقعة اليوم في العالم يتكلم فيها بنص واثبات والحق واحد ولا حاجة بنا الى معرفته وهذا كقول القائل ملك الروم الان قائم ام لا والحق احدهما لا محالة ما تحت قدمي من الارض بعد مجاوزة خمسة اذرع حجر او تراب وفيه دود ام لا والحق احدهما لا محالة ومقدار كرة الشمس او زحل ومسافتهما مائة فرسخ ام لا والحق احدهما وهكذا مساحات الجبال والبلاد وعدد الحيوانات في البر والبحر وعدد الرمل فهذه كلها فيها حق وباطل ولا حاجة الى معرفتها بل العلوم المشهورة من النحو والشعر والطب والفلسفة والكلام وغيرها فمنها حق وباطل ولا حاجة بنا الى أكثر ما قيل فيها بل الذي نسلم انه لا بد من معرفته مسألتان وجود الصانع تعالى وصدق الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم وهذا لا بد منه ثم إذا اثبت صدق الرسول فالباقي يتعلق به تقليدا او علما بخبر المتواتر او ظنا بخبر الواحد وذلك من العلوم كاف في الدنيا والآخرة وما عداه مستغنى عنه أما وجود الصانع وصدق الرسول فطريق معرفته النظر في الخلق حتى يستدل به على الخالق وفي المعجزة حتى يستدل بها على صدق الرسول وهذان لا حاجة فيهما الى معلم معصوم فان الناس فيه قسمان قسم اعتقدوا ذلك تقليدا وسماعا من ابويهم وصمموا عليه العقد قاطعين به وناطقين بقولهم لا اله إلا الله محمد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم من غيربحث عن الطرق البرهانية وهؤلاء هم المسلمون حقا وذلك الاعتقاد يكفيهم وليس عليهم