i am sure the deeply immersed devbandis will point out that the difference between "encompassing knowledge" and "encompassing knowledge of the world" is being discussed. apparently, according to numani, alahazrat mentioned the former whereas all khalil said was the latter, thereby deceiving arab ulama.
charges and because numani told you so, just believe it.
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all these additional qualifiers, mutlaq, intrinsic, given are all drawn out of thin air to use where necessary. keep adding and removing attributes to make the argument sound - is there any basis or consistency? who cares and as i said, who's looking?
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but a disclaimer is in order: faisla kun should be refuted from the urdu original and here i was relying only on the translation (which is tweaked and massaged btw) and by those comments i don't mean that i agree to his citations or that i don't have any other issues with that text. i was only showing the inconsistency of the text in a random page - and a detailed analysis will show far more than that. wa billahi't tawfiq.
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now let us go back to numani's accusation from the quote above (vide translation on p60)
He believes in encompassing earthly knowledge for Iblis, and when the mention of Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah (Allah Almighty bless him and grant him peace), comes, he says, “This is shirk.” Shirk is only to affirm a partner for Allah Almighty, so when affirming something for any of creation is shirk, it will definitely be shirk for all creation, since it is not possible for anyone to be a partner of Allah Almighty.
the translator helps numani a little by skewing the phrase: "encompassing earthly knowledge"
what khalil wrote was: "ilm e muHiT e zameen"
and alahazrat in husam (according to numani mistranslated the above) "bi `ilmi'l arD al-muHiT"
(see the attached image from
this text.)
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numani shamelessly hacks and whacks quotes and with chutzpah oozing from the seams, wonders why sunnis do not question alahazrat.
throwing intrinsic/granted, absolute/confined where convenient for his explanation is something else, accusing alahazrat of misrepresenting is another.
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khalil was talking about ilm-e-muHiT-e-zameen and saying
1) satan has this, RasulAllah SallAllahu alayhi wa sallam does not
2) the expanse of satan's knowledge is proved by nuSuS, RasulAllah SallAllahu alayhi wa sallam is not
3) proving it for RasulAllah SallAllahu alayhi wa sallam is shirk, but for satan is not.
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notice that khalil was saying:
The outcome: One should ponder, that by looking at the state of Satan and the angel of death, [and then] proving such encompassing knowledge of the earth for the Pride of the World, without any scriptural evidence and merely by fallacious analogy – if this is not polytheism, then which part of faith is it? The extensiveness of knowledge for Satan and the angel of death is proven by scriptural proof; where is such scriptural proof for the extensiveness of the knowledge of the Pride of the World, thereby refuting all scriptural proofs and establishes one polytheistic belief?
notice that he uses the word "yeh wus'at" - but still numani says khalil was talking of intrinsic knowledge concerning RasulAllah sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam and 'granted' for satan.
secondly, according to numani, satan has been 'granted' this knowledge; why can't this be 'granted' to RasulAllah SallAllahu alayhi wa sallam.
numani himself decides that it is not important knowledge* and hence his straw man argument: if RasulAllah SallAllahu alayhi wa sallam does not have
that knowledge it does not mean that shayTan knows more. [just
ilm-e-muHiT-e-zameen nothing to rave about; nothing fancy. shaytan has it, the Master SallAllahu `alayhi wa sallam doesn't - astaghfirullah, wa'l iyadhu billah]
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*apparently, he seems to be in the know - perhaps by his teacher's teacher satan himself. then how can numani decide which knowledge is good or bad or valid or invalid for RasulAllah sallALlahu alayhi wa sallam? is it via any naSS qaTyi or merely
qiyas-e-fasidah? [afaik, in urdu as in arabic, qiyas is muzakkar - but you cannot argue with them; they,
whose association with devband imparted knowledge of urdu to RasulAllah sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam - al-iyadhu billah, astaghfirullah - i merely cite the words of a blasphemer and i abhor citing this and i will do a hundred times istighfar for citing them.]