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SpiritualRoadmapbyGhazali, page : 47
I realized that to refute a system before understanding it and becoming
acquainted with its depths is to act blindly. I therefore set out in all seriousness,
to acquire a knowledge of philosophy from books and by private study without
the help of an instructor. I made progress towards this aim during my hours of
free time after teaching the religious sciences and writing, for at this period I
was burdened with the teaching and instruction of three hundred students in
Baghdad. By my solitary reading Allah brought me in less than two years to a
complete understanding of the sciences of the philosophers. Thereafter I
continued to constantly reflect for nearly a year on what I had come to
understand, going over it in my mind again and again and probing its jumbled
depths, until I comprehended surely and certainly how far it was deceitful and
confusing and how far true and representing reality.
Here is an account of this discipline and the achievement of its sciences.
There are various schools of philosophers, and their approaches are divided into
various branches; but throughout their numerous schools they suffer from the
defect of being infidels and irreligious men, even though some are much closer to
the truth than others.
acquainted with its depths is to act blindly. I therefore set out in all seriousness,
to acquire a knowledge of philosophy from books and by private study without
the help of an instructor. I made progress towards this aim during my hours of
free time after teaching the religious sciences and writing, for at this period I
was burdened with the teaching and instruction of three hundred students in
Baghdad. By my solitary reading Allah brought me in less than two years to a
complete understanding of the sciences of the philosophers. Thereafter I
continued to constantly reflect for nearly a year on what I had come to
understand, going over it in my mind again and again and probing its jumbled
depths, until I comprehended surely and certainly how far it was deceitful and
confusing and how far true and representing reality.
Here is an account of this discipline and the achievement of its sciences.
There are various schools of philosophers, and their approaches are divided into
various branches; but throughout their numerous schools they suffer from the
defect of being infidels and irreligious men, even though some are much closer to
the truth than others.