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The Position of Intellect in the… S.J. Ebrahimi & H. Sadeqi (143

               intellect  as  capable  of             presupposition in the plenty
               identifying good and bad in            of  their  interpretations  on

               the     field    of    rational        traditions.
               sensuous. Therefore, he has               Believing  in  good  and
               frequently      benefited     of       bad     is    among       those

               rational     arguments        in       negotiated issues by several
               multiple parts of his works.           non-Imamiyah  and  Ahl
               He  presented  an  exegesis,           Hadith  scholars  throughout

               in    process     of    stating        the history of Islam, as far
               interpretation  (Ta’wil)  and          as  becoming  rational  good
               exegesis       (Tafsir)      on        and bad as one of the most
               numerous  traditions,  while           fundamental  disputes  in

               authenticated to  one  of the          theology.  Furthermore,  the
               principles      of    practical        difference between Ashʽarite

               intellect  and  the  rational          and     Adliyyah      becomes
               good and bad.                          clear in this discussion, and
                  Although       the     terms        some  subjects  such  as
               practical intellect or rational        God's justice is on its basis.

               good and bad, in their basic              The  importance  of  the
               meanings,  are  of  particular         discussion  is  to  the  extent
               ones  in  philosophy  and              that  Adliyyah  were  called

               principles  of  jurisprudence          to because of their belief in
               and  conventionalized  many            Allah's  justice  based  on
               years  after  Sheikh  Saduq            substantiation  of  good  and

               and  Sheikh  Kulayni’s  era;           bad. (Muzaffar, 2002: 213)
               but  rational  rule  has  been            Although  the  principles
               frequently  applied  as  a             of practical intellect have been
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