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| | Issue of Badaa |
 | | In another session, al-Mamoon invited him to debate Sulayman al-Maroozi, Khurasan's scientist in kalam(theology), and the debate between them dealt with some significant topics which were being debated then by scholars of the science of kalam, and the starting-point of the discussion was the issue of Badaa(change in an earlier divine ruling). |
 | | It is not one of His attributes; therefore, it is transient, not perpetual, since an action is a form of event, and the deed cannot be identical to the doer, so the will cannot be identical to the willing person. |
 | | But Sulayman kept fumbling about in his answers to the Holy Imam's questions after the Holy Imam(A.S.) had closed before him all avenues of his argument, and al-Mamun was quick to notice his fumbling about which indicated Sulayman's loss, so he rebuked him and criticized him. |
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