Iklan
In Search of ‘Mutawatir’ News
Regarding the quality and truth of Mutawatir hadiths, the ulema have agreed it is \'dharury\', an obligation to accept the truth of the information as if they had witnessed the event.
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Over a thousand years ago in Greece, Plato (427-347 BC) told a story known as “The Allegory of the Cave”, about several men trapped in a cave.
In Politeia, (The Republic) sections 514a-517a, as quoted by A Setyo Wibowo (2010), Plato describes that one side of the cave’s walls reflect light from a fire behind the trapped men. Because the men in the cave are chained so that they are unable to turn their heads to the left, right or back, they wholly believed that the shadow on the wall of the cave was real.