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transformations and combinations. This is similar to the investigation by
medicine of the human body with its principal and subordinate organs, and of
the causes of the changes of temperament. Just as it is not a condition of
religion to reject medical science, so likewise the rejection of natural science
is not one of its conditions, except with regard to particular points which I
enumerate in my book, The Incoherence of the Philosophers. Any other points
on which a different view has to be taken from the philosophers are shown by
reflection to be implied in those mentioned. The basis of all these objections is
the recognition that nature is in subjection to Allah most high, not acting of
itself but serving as an instrument in the hands of its Creator. Sun and moon,
stars and elements, are in subjection to His command. There is none of them
whose activity is produced by or proceeds from its own essence.
4. THEOLOGY OR METAPHYSICS. Here occur most of the errors of the
philosophers. They are unable to satisfy the conditions of proof they lay down
in logic, and consequently differ much from one another here. The views of
Aristotle, as expounded by al-Farabi and Ibn Sina, are close to those of the
Islamic writers. All their errors are comprised under twenty heads, on three of
which they must be reckoned infidels and on seventeen heretics. It was to
medicine of the human body with its principal and subordinate organs, and of
the causes of the changes of temperament. Just as it is not a condition of
religion to reject medical science, so likewise the rejection of natural science
is not one of its conditions, except with regard to particular points which I
enumerate in my book, The Incoherence of the Philosophers. Any other points
on which a different view has to be taken from the philosophers are shown by
reflection to be implied in those mentioned. The basis of all these objections is
the recognition that nature is in subjection to Allah most high, not acting of
itself but serving as an instrument in the hands of its Creator. Sun and moon,
stars and elements, are in subjection to His command. There is none of them
whose activity is produced by or proceeds from its own essence.
4. THEOLOGY OR METAPHYSICS. Here occur most of the errors of the
philosophers. They are unable to satisfy the conditions of proof they lay down
in logic, and consequently differ much from one another here. The views of
Aristotle, as expounded by al-Farabi and Ibn Sina, are close to those of the
Islamic writers. All their errors are comprised under twenty heads, on three of
which they must be reckoned infidels and on seventeen heretics. It was to