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The Ba'alist Capture Mechanism, the Quranic concept of Batil, and the philosophical concept of zahir-without-batin represent the identical structural reality of a parasitic entity that persists by coating itself in legitimacy (Haq). Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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The aim is to explore and define the Ba'alist Capture Mechanism through the Quranic understanding of Batil.

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Haq and Batil: The Quranic Ontology of the Ba'alist Capture Mechanism

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The aim is to explore and define the Ba'alist Capture Mechanism through the Quranic understanding of Batil.
Analysis of five Quranic ayat (13:17, 14:24-27, 17:81, 21:18, 34:49)
Referencing Allama Tabatabai's works and other Islamic texts
Deriving seven structural attributes of Batil from the Quranic passages
Identified seven structural attributes of Batil: rootless, non-beneficial, parasitic, prominently apparent, constitutively perishing, expelled by its own force, and creatively sterile.
Linked Imam Ali's teachings on the Admixture Doctrine to the persistence of Batil through the Legitimacy Name Strategy.
Concluded that Ba'alist, Batil, and zahir-without-batin represent the same structural reality.

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This paper grounds the SCRA Ba'alist Capture Mechanism in the Quran's structural definition of Batil. Working through five defining ayat (13:17, 14:24-27, 17:81, 21:18, 34:49) with primary reference to Allama Tabatabai's Al-Mizan fi Tafsir al-Quran, Tafsir al-Qummi, and Al-Burhan fi Tafsir al-Quran, the paper derives seven structural attributes of Batil: rootless, non-beneficial, parasitic, apparently prominent, constitutively perishing, expelled by the force it rode, and creatively sterile. Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib's admixture doctrine from Nahj al-Balagha (Khutba 16, Khutba 125) is identified as the ontological ground of the Legitimacy Name Strategy (Type III Ba'alist Capture): Batil persists by coating itself with Haq. The paper concludes that Ba'alist (prophetic-historical), Batil (Quranic-ontological), and zahir-without-batin (philosophical-analytical) are three names for the same structural reality. SCRA Working Paper 05. Published at: https://alvidscriptorium.com/research/haq-batil/

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