(1) Some of the scholars of the Arabic language claimed that the meaning of His statement, "And they are given thereof things in resemblance," is that it is similar in virtue; that is, each one of them has of virtue in its kind the like of what the other has in its kind.
Abū Jaʿfar said: This is not a view whose invalidity we consider permissible to occupy ourselves demonstrating, because of its divergence from the view of all scholars among the people of Interpretation. It is sufficient for a view—by virtue of its divergence from the view of all people of knowledge—to serve as proof of its error.
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