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  • You have heard this by rote from your father: through foolishness you have become involved in this (belief).
  • What is the demonstrative argument for its temporality? Tell (me) or else keep silence and do not seek (indulge in) excessive talk.”
  • He said, “One day I saw two parties searching in this deep sea,
  • (Engaged) in disputation and controversy and desperate battle: a crowd gathered round those two persons. 2840
  • I went towards the crowded multitude and took notice of their (the disputants') affair.
  • One was saying, ‘The sky will pass away: without any doubt, this edifice hath a builder.’
  • The other said, ‘It is eternal and timeless: it hath no builder, or else it is (itself) the builder.’
  • He (his adversary) said, ‘You have denied the Creator, the Producer of day and night and the Giver of sustenance.’
  • He (the philosopher) said, ‘Without clear evidence, I will not listen to that which an ignoramus has accepted by rote. 2845
  • Come, bring the proof and evidence, for never in the world will I hearken to this without proof.’