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of slight intellect imagines that, because ethical concepts in philosophers‟
books are mixed with their own rubbish, all reference to them must be avoided
and any person mentioning them must be a liar. They imagine this because
they heard the concepts from philosophers in the first place, and their weak
intellects concluded that, because their author is a falsifier, the concepts are
false.
This is like a man who hears a Christian assert, “There is no god but Allah,
and Jesus is the Messenger of Allah”. The man rejects this, saying, “`This is a
Christian conception” and does not ask himself whether the Christian is an
unbeliever because of this assertion or because he denies the prophethood of
Muhammad, peace be upon him. If he is an unbeliever only because he
denies Muhammad, then there is no need to deny his other assertions which
are not connected with his unbelief, even though these are also true in his
eyes.
Weaker intellects take men as criterion for truth and not the truth as criterion
books are mixed with their own rubbish, all reference to them must be avoided
and any person mentioning them must be a liar. They imagine this because
they heard the concepts from philosophers in the first place, and their weak
intellects concluded that, because their author is a falsifier, the concepts are
false.
This is like a man who hears a Christian assert, “There is no god but Allah,
and Jesus is the Messenger of Allah”. The man rejects this, saying, “`This is a
Christian conception” and does not ask himself whether the Christian is an
unbeliever because of this assertion or because he denies the prophethood of
Muhammad, peace be upon him. If he is an unbeliever only because he
denies Muhammad, then there is no need to deny his other assertions which
are not connected with his unbelief, even though these are also true in his
eyes.
Weaker intellects take men as criterion for truth and not the truth as criterion