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and praising the sacred Law. Nevertheless he does not refrain from drinking
wine and from various wicked and immoral practices! If someone says to him,
`If the prophetic revelation is not genuine, why do you join in the prayers‟?
perhaps he will reply, `To exercise my body, and because it is a custom in the
place, and to keep my wealth and family‟. Or perhaps he says, `The sacred
Law is genuine; the prophetic revelation is true‟; then he is asked, `And why
then do you drink wine‟? and he replies, `Wine is forbidden only because it
leads to enmity and hatred; I am sufficiently wise to guard against that, and so
I take wine to make my mind more lively‟. Ibn Sina actually writes in his
Testament that he swore to Allah that he would do various things, and in
particular that he would praise what the sacred Law prescribed, that he would
not be lax in taking part in the public worship of Allah, and that he would not
drink for pleasure but only as a tonic or medicine. Thus the net result of his
purity of faith and observance of the obligations of worship was that he made
an exception of drinking wine for medical purposes!
Such is the faith of those philosophers who profess religious adherence.
wine and from various wicked and immoral practices! If someone says to him,
`If the prophetic revelation is not genuine, why do you join in the prayers‟?
perhaps he will reply, `To exercise my body, and because it is a custom in the
place, and to keep my wealth and family‟. Or perhaps he says, `The sacred
Law is genuine; the prophetic revelation is true‟; then he is asked, `And why
then do you drink wine‟? and he replies, `Wine is forbidden only because it
leads to enmity and hatred; I am sufficiently wise to guard against that, and so
I take wine to make my mind more lively‟. Ibn Sina actually writes in his
Testament that he swore to Allah that he would do various things, and in
particular that he would praise what the sacred Law prescribed, that he would
not be lax in taking part in the public worship of Allah, and that he would not
drink for pleasure but only as a tonic or medicine. Thus the net result of his
purity of faith and observance of the obligations of worship was that he made
an exception of drinking wine for medical purposes!
Such is the faith of those philosophers who profess religious adherence.