He took his place and said...

He took his place and said: “How strange it is that some groups claim that we know the unseen. No-one knows the unseen but Allah; to whom belong Might and Majesty.

I had intended to bear my female slave, but she fled from me and I did not know in which room of the house she was.” Sadir said: “But when he stood up from the ‘majlis’ and went into his private quarters, I, Abu Basir and Maysar went in and said to him: ‘May we be made your ransom, we heard you say this and that about the matter of your female slave, and we know that you have a very broad and extensive knowledge, but we do not attribute knowledge of the unseen to you.’” He said: ‘Have you found in what you have read of the Book of Allah, to Whom…