 TO HAVE PRECEDENCE OVER A SUPERIOR (al-fadil). ALLAH THE MOST HIGH SAYS, "is HE THEN WHO GUIDETH INTO THE TRUTH THE MORE WORTHY TO BE FOLLOWED, OR HE WHO GUIDETH NOT UNLESS HE BE HIMSELF GUIDED ? WHAT THEN HATH BEFALLEN YOU THAT YE SO JUDGE ?" (10: 36)....  Publications - Page 60by Oriental Translation Fund - 1928Full view - About this book
 | John Medows Rodwell - 1876 - 600 pages
...ye add to God who guideth to the truth ? SAY : God guideth unto the truth. Is He then who guideth to the truth the more worthy to be followed, or he who...guided ? What then hath befallen you that ye so judge ? And most of them follow only a conceit : — But a conceit profiteth nothing against the truth !... | |
 | ?usain Na?r, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Hamid Dabashi, Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr - 1988 - 424 pages
...THE PEOPLE OF HIS AGE, BECAUSE IT IS EVIL BOTH BY REASON AND TRADITION FOR AN INFERIOR (al-mafduf) TO HAVE PRECEDENCE OVER A SUPERIOR (al-fadil). ALLAH...GUIDED? WHAT THEN HATH BEFALLEN YOU THAT YE SO JUDGE?" (X, 36). It is necessary (wajib) that the Prophet possess all the qualities of perfection and superiority,... | |
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