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They confuse you and make you disprove your own proofs. They continue these false accusations until you back off.” Al-Nawfali added, “Then the Imam (a.s.) smiled and told me, ‘O Al-Nawfali! Do you fear that they will disprove my argument?’” Al-Nawfali said, ‘No, by God! I have never worried about you, and I hope that God willing, God will make you victorious over them!’ The Imam (a.s.) asked again, ‘O Nawfali!

Would you like to know when Al-Ma’mun will feel regretful?’ He answered, ‘Yes.’ The Imam (a.s.) said, ‘When he (al-Ma’mun) hears me argue with the people of the Torah quoting their own Torah, with the people of the Gospel quoting their own Gospel, with the people of the Psalms quoting their own Psalms, with the Zoroastrians arguing in their Persian language, with the Romans in their own Latin, and with the rhetoricians using their very own rhetoric.

So, if I close the avenues of argument in the face of each arguing party and disprove his…