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the way leading to Allah by withdrawing from worldly pleasure. In their spiritual
warfare they have learned about the virtues and vices of the soul and the
defects in its actions, and what they have learned they have clearly
expressed. The philosophers have taken over this teaching and mingled it
with their own disquisitions, furtively using this embellishment to sell their
rubbishy wares more readily. Assuredly there was in the age of the
philosophers, as indeed there is in every age, a group of those godly men, of
whom Allah never uncovers the world. They are the pillars of the earth, and by
their blessings mercy comes down on the people of the earth, as we read in
the Prophetic Statement where Muhammad, peace be upon him, says:
“Through them you receive rain, through them you receive sustenance; of
their number were the men of the Cave”. And these, as the Koran declares,
existed in early times (cp. Surah 18).
From the philosophers incorporating into their books concepts from the
prophets and mystics there arise two evil tendencies, one in their supporters
and one in their opponents.
(a) The evil tendency in the case of the opponent is serious. A crowd of men
warfare they have learned about the virtues and vices of the soul and the
defects in its actions, and what they have learned they have clearly
expressed. The philosophers have taken over this teaching and mingled it
with their own disquisitions, furtively using this embellishment to sell their
rubbishy wares more readily. Assuredly there was in the age of the
philosophers, as indeed there is in every age, a group of those godly men, of
whom Allah never uncovers the world. They are the pillars of the earth, and by
their blessings mercy comes down on the people of the earth, as we read in
the Prophetic Statement where Muhammad, peace be upon him, says:
“Through them you receive rain, through them you receive sustenance; of
their number were the men of the Cave”. And these, as the Koran declares,
existed in early times (cp. Surah 18).
From the philosophers incorporating into their books concepts from the
prophets and mystics there arise two evil tendencies, one in their supporters
and one in their opponents.
(a) The evil tendency in the case of the opponent is serious. A crowd of men