if they are studied closely, it will be seen that each one of them emerges from reality, is weighed up with wisdom, and as truth returns to truth. Dubious points, whatever they are, have appeared from prattling minds which have then muddled them. This is a challenge to whoever doubts the essential truth of Qur'anic commentaries and the Shari'a! Let him step forward and show himself!
The Seventh Premise
The Seventh Premise
Exaggeration is a revolutionary. It is like this: it is a human characteristic to mix imagination with truth by tending to excess in what one takes pleasure in, to overstate something one describes, and to exaggerate something one relates. In consequence, doing good is actually to do evil. Although one is not aware of it, deficiency arises from the excess, corruption from reform, disparagement from praise, and ugliness from beautification. For, "From whence they know not" mars the beauty arising from the balance and proportion. Just as to increase the dose of a medicine because you deem it salutary will make the cure injurious; so to show backbiting to be equal to murder or passing water while standing to be equal to adultery due to enjoining the good and deterring from evil in exaggerated terms — although the truth never needs this, or to hold giving one dirhem as charity equal to making the Hajj, is to take murder and adultery lightly and to devalue the Hajj. In consequence, the preacher should speak both wisely and in reasoned manner. Yes, those preachers whose words are unbalanced cause the eclipse of many luminous truths of religion. Due to the tendency to exaggerate, it has been added to the shining, unanimously related miracle of the splitting of the moon that the moon descended to earth, entered the Messenger's (UWBP) pocket then emerged from it. This has both made that sun-like miracle as faint as the star Suha and eclipsed that moon-like proof of prophethood, and opened the door to the deniers' pretexts.
In Short: Everyone who loves religion and is enamoured of the truth should content himself with the worth of things [as they are]