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Islamic Model of Peaceful Coexistence… MR. Dodhiya and M. Ghanbari (111
argument is the prophet since they could be proved
and the Imam whereas neither by intellect nor
the hidden argument is by religious means. This
the intellect. (Kulayni, 1987) is because the religious
rulings on what is good
Accordingly, if one comes or evil are in accordance
across a hadith that goes with the principles of
against the sound intellect good and evil; and these
or interprets a verse out of principles in turn are
context or against the other discernible by the intellect.
verses of the Quran, such If the intellect were
narrations would not be intrinsically incapable of
considered valid, and such this discernment, then
an interpretation would be the principles of good and
considered incorrect. evil become meaningless,
The sage, Nasir al-Din being unprovable either
Tusi in his book “Tajrid al- by the intellect or religion:
I’tiqad” says: an act commanded by
If the means of proving God would then be
good and evil were ‘good’ not because it is
restricted to that means an expression of the
provided by religious universal principle of
rulings alone, the good goodness; but only because
and evil of acts would, in it has been commanded
a general manner, cease
to have any meaning,
