Doubt and certainty
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al-shakk · al-shubhah · al-yaqīn · certainty · doubt · is certainty removed by doubt · suspicion · upon mere supposition · بمجرد الظن · هل يزال اليقين بالشك
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Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ (Arabic)
Is certainty removed by doubt — and shall we then turn to a view whose scent is caught neither in the reports of the Arabs, nor in their histories, nor in the histories of the rest of the Semitic nations?
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Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The maxim that certainty is not displaced by doubt, applied to forbid the surrender of a unanimously transmitted genealogy to a conjectural theory.
Is certainty removed by doubt — and shall we then turn to a view whose scent is caught neither in the reports of the Arabs, nor in their histories, nor in the histories of the rest of the Semitic nations?
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
The pair doubt and certainty: doubt as what weak proofs produce, certainty as what the primaries and mass transmission secure and what no marvel can dislodge.
So let this be noted, for the weakness of a proof awakens doubt and casts suspicion into the hearer's heart concerning the soundness of the claim demonstrated
and the strength of belief goes on increasing by a hidden increase until it turns into certainty without the soul's being aware of it
Nor is it hidden that clinging to proofs like these to establish the existence of the Creator is among the things that leave room for the objections of objectors and bequeath doubt in the hearts of the weak among believers;