The double meaning has been given to suit people's diverse intelligence. The apparent contradictions are meant to stimulate the learned to deeper stu… - Averroes

Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.

It is quite clear to you that all the people see that lower kinds of creation could have been made in a different way from that in which they really are, and as they see this lower degree in many things they think that they must have been made by chance.

The Asharites have expressed a very peculiar opinion, both with regard to reason and religion; about this problem they have explained it in a way in which religion has not, but have adopted quite an opposite method.