Is Our Knowledge Definite?
I do not agree with your assessment. Naoosobillah, Lie is also a very harsh word; especially for Allah…we must be super careful! Truth is relative word and let’s leave it to that. I think what Allah told us a truth that is within the parameters of this extremely vast universe and a perfect truth within the realm of our test…that is all that matters to me within the capacity of my knowledge and intellect.
And the thing you said about people denying reality but then going out and standing on the very road they are not sure about- surely we can just say that that is pragmatic knowledge. Or that when I use my fitrah for reasons of justice or to say something is beautiful or not- it is just a pragmatic use. I have no idea or way to know whether this revelation of the fitrah is actually in correlation with the ultimate metaphysical realities. Someone could question its metaphysical truth value but still use it for the above pragmatic purposes Maybe my hand is false. Maybe my chair is false. But my ‘self’, me, my soul- I cannot deny that. I think therefore I am. And the essence of existence must be truth, because if it was falsehood it could simply not exist. If something’s existence is based on falsehood then it does not exist. So ‘I’ am real. ‘I’ am true. And that means that the person who gave this ‘self’, and is maintaining it must be true. Because if he was even a little bit false then he would not be true and then my existence would be false which I cannot deny. And the giver of this ‘self’ must be true. Because it is the giver of all existence. And if his existence was based on falsehood then (existence based on falsehood means he can’t exist) nothing would exist since he is the source of all existence. But this is only his existence. What about the things he says? Everything I know, my ability to even think is from him. My definition of truth is based upon what he says- he is the source of truth. But what is the essence of communication and information? Is it truth? It seems that we can communicate information that is false. ‘I have one trillion pounds’. This is information based on falsehood. So who is to say that the being who’s the existence is based solely on truth cannot communicate ideas that are not in accordance with reality?