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his notice that his shrinking is pure ignorance and is the cause of his missing
the benefit he seeks; he ought to be informed that the closeness of the
counterfeit to the good coin does not make the good coin counterfeit or the
counterfeit good. In the same way the proximity between truth and falsehood
does not make truth falsehood nor falsehood truth.
This is what we wanted to say about the baneful and mischievous influence
of philosophy.
3. The Danger of `Authoritative Instruction’.
By the time I had done away with the science of philosophy, understanding
it and marking what was false in it, I realized that this too did not satisfy my
aim in full and that the intellect neither comprehends all it attempts to know
nor solves all its problems. The heresy of the Ta`limiyah had already
appeared and everyone was speaking about their talk of gaining knowledge of
the meaning of things from an infallible Imam who has charge of the truth. It
had already occurred to me to study their views and become acquainted with
the benefit he seeks; he ought to be informed that the closeness of the
counterfeit to the good coin does not make the good coin counterfeit or the
counterfeit good. In the same way the proximity between truth and falsehood
does not make truth falsehood nor falsehood truth.
This is what we wanted to say about the baneful and mischievous influence
of philosophy.
3. The Danger of `Authoritative Instruction’.
By the time I had done away with the science of philosophy, understanding
it and marking what was false in it, I realized that this too did not satisfy my
aim in full and that the intellect neither comprehends all it attempts to know
nor solves all its problems. The heresy of the Ta`limiyah had already
appeared and everyone was speaking about their talk of gaining knowledge of
the meaning of things from an infallible Imam who has charge of the truth. It
had already occurred to me to study their views and become acquainted with