747 In interpreting the Qur’an and comprehending the religion...

747 In interpreting the Qur’an and comprehending the religion, he said: In this regard that which should be followed is only the decisive proof, since this issue comes under bab al-aqa’id (doctrines), and it is dependable upon certainty that can’t be taken through conjecture and imagination.

748 Believing in Message of Muhammad (S): 749 Al-Ustadh Muhammad Abduh says: It should be believed in what he (S) reported and had faith in whatever he brought, with which I mean what is expressed clearly in the holy Book, and what was successively narrated (mutawatir) through an authentic chain of transmitters that having all the necessary conditions.

That is the khabar that is reported by a group of people against whom charge of collaboration on falsity can never be levelled by anyone, as is usual in the case of sensible matters, such as the conditions after death like resurrection (ba’th) and bliss in the paradise, or torment in the hell, reckoning for the merits (hasanat) and guilts, beside other known alike issues.

But when it is related to belief and faith, we should depend only upon what is plain in the khabar, and it is impermissible to annex the conjectural to the decisive. The provision…