What caution is essential when assessing the alleged exhaustive disjunction in Sabaʾ 34:8?
Truth and Falsehood in Reports: The Majority, al-Naẓẓām and al-Jāḥiẓ
- Ignore the verse’s grammar
- Discard its context
- Treat the opponents’ listed options as all objectively possible cases
- Read their words in their own argumentative and rhetorical context