والوجه في هذه الاخبار ما قدمنا ذكره من تغير المصلحة فيه، واقتضائها تأخير الامر إلى وقت آخر على ما بيناه، دون ظهور الامر له تعالى، فأنا لا نقول به ولا نجوزه، تعالى الله عن ذلك علوا كبيرا. فإن قيل: هذا يؤدي إلى أن لا نثق بشيء من أخبار الله تعالى. قلنا: الاخبار على ضربين ضرب لا يجوز فيه التغير في مخبراته، فإنا نقطع عليها، لعلمنا بأنه لا يجوز أن يتغير المخبر في نفسه، كالاخبار عن صفات الله تعالى وعن الكائنات فيما مضى، وكالاخبار بأنه يثيب المؤمنين. والضرب الآخر هو ما يجوز تغيره في نفسه لتغير المصلحة عند تغير شروطه، فأنا نجوز جميع ذلك، كالاخبار عن الحوادث في المستقبل إلا أن يرد الخبر على وجه يعلم أن مخبره لا يتغير، فحينئذ نقطع بكونه، ولاجل ذلك قرن الحتم بكثير من المخبرات، فأعلمنا أنه مما لا يتغير أصلا، فعند ذلك نقطع به.
The reason behind these is the same, which we mentioned before that the exigency in that matter changed and it was postponed to another time, but it does not mean that its exigency became known to Almighty Allah at that time. We don’t utter this word and do not consider it correct as the being of Almighty Allah is greater and above this. Objection: This belief of yours would become the cause that we do not rely on the statements of the Almighty Allah (reports). Reply: Reports are of two kinds: First type: There are some reports in which no sort of change is there, because we have faith and belief in absence of their change and transformation and know well that change is not possible in these reports; for example the reports, which mention the attributes of the Almighty Allah, universe and past things; and in the same way reports, which say that the Almighty Allah would reward the believers according to their acts. Second type: There are some reports, in which change is possible in their selves, because of the condition of change and transformation, there is some change in their personal beings also and we consider this change possible; like reports, which talk of future events; but reports which we know that would not be changed, we have faith in their actualization. And that is why many reports about which it is mentioned that their occurrence is certain, we know well that these are the reports in which there is no change at all for any reason and at that time we become certain of its occurrence.
