LessonsFinality of Prophethood and the Protection of ProphetsQuiz

وَيَجُوزُ سَهْوًا بِالِاتِّفَاقِ
Certain inadvertent lapses are reported as allowable by agreement.

Inadvertence is an unintentional lapse of attention; an error of judgment arises from an effort to reach a correct conclusion on a particular matter. Neither is identical to deliberately committing a prohibited act.

Attributing an ordinary human lapse to a prophet does not entail that a permanent corruption of revelation can remain uncorrected. Safeguarding transmission and specifying the scope of human action are different arguments, and the limits of one cannot be transferred automatically to the other.

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Inadvertence versus interpretive error

Finality of Prophethood and the Protection of Prophets

وَيَجُوزُ سَهْوًا بِالِاتِّفَاقِ
Certain inadvertent lapses are reported as allowable by agreement.

Inadvertence is an unintentional lapse of attention; an error of judgment arises from an effort to reach a correct conclusion on a particular matter. Neither is identical to deliberately committing a prohibited act.

Attributing an ordinary human lapse to a prophet does not entail that a permanent corruption of revelation can remain uncorrected. Safeguarding transmission and specifying the scope of human action are different arguments, and the limits of one cannot be transferred automatically to the other.