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less directly mentioned in among practical rational
the works of Sheikh Saduq; rules and elucidated: Leaving

but we find lots of the is impossible for Allah
issues on good and bad Almighty. Accordingly, he
which noticed as a mentions, “ As for God’s

presupposition in the saying, and left them
introduction of his sightless in a manifold
discussions. This problem darkness”, (Quran, 2: 17)

indicates the belief of means He does not hasten
Imamiyah narrators, versus to punish them, and extends
the Sunni ones, to rational them a grace period to

good and bad as one of repent. (Saduq, 1958: 102)
their features. In general, Saduq interprets
For instance, it could be all the verses related to

alluded to what expressed divine leading astray
by Sheikh Saduq following (Idhlal) on the basis that it
th
the 18 hadith in presenting is bad for Allah whereas
the exegesis on the verse the Sunni scholars do not

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67 of sura At-Tawba. He, consider it as bad and
st
following the verse 51 of prefer the exoteric meaning

sura A'raf says, we leave of the verses (Zahir) as
them i.e. We do not make criterion.
them a reward in In addition, due to the
comparison to one who intellect’s evidence on the

hopes to meet his day. badness (Qubh) of deceit,
Then he predicated this trickery, mockery and
interpretation on a rule forgetfulness, he found