Then, some students of knowledge from the sons of Persia and Rome became obsessed with a type of deceptive argumentation.
Invented by a group of Easterners.
And they attached it to the foundations of jurisprudence in religion.
They maneuvered in it like foxes.
And they deviated from the clear path.
And they adorned it with phrases found in the speech of scholars who have uttered them.
However, they placed them outside their proper contexts.
And they composed arguments in an unsound manner.
And they turned from productive arrangement to barren.
However, by lengthening expression and extending indications.
And using ambiguous and metaphorical words in the premises.
And placing suppositions in the place of certainties.
And using general evidence, where it has a connotation, in a way that requires reconciling contradictions.
Along with referral elsewhere and prolongation.
This is the work of someone mistaken or deliberately misleading in debate.
And the Prophet ﷺ prohibited intricate questions.
