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The Position of Intellect in the… S.J. Ebrahimi & H. Sadeqi (153
We believe that is not His authorities have clearly
(rationally) permitted for stated on His behalf.
the promised savior to be In other words, the
other than Imam Mahdi, Prophet and infallible
even though His occultation Imams i.e. divine
is too prolonged. (Saduq, authorities, could not
1993: 96) rationally lie and make
wrong promises because it
Then he clarified necessitates leading towards
regarding this rational astray which is bad for
impermissibility as follows: Allah.
Because the Prophet and Therefore, divine authorities
infallible Imams referred must be truthful in their
to Him through His promises, and it is not
name and lineage, and to logically lawful to be other
Him they stipulated in than the son of Imam
their context (Nas) and Hassan Askari, one who
to Him they gave good has already been appointed
tidings. (Ibid)
through explicit denote of
We will figure out if pay context as the promised
our close attention to the savior, and this is an
argument expressed by intellectual impermissibility
Saduq, that he did not not legislative (Shar’iyah).
logically consider permissible Not only in the above-
if Allah does not mentioned examples but
implement based on what also in many other ones, it
can be conceivable that
