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them of ignorance therein. He even rejects their theory of the eclipse of sun and
moon, considering that what they say is contrary to revelation. When that view is
thus attacked, someone hears who has knowledge of such matters by
demonstration. He does not doubt his demonstration, but, believing that Islam is
based on ignorance and the denial of apodictic proof, grows in love for
philosophy and hatred for Islam.
A grievous crime indeed against religion has been committed by the man who
imagines that Islam is defended by the denial of the mathematical sciences,
seeing that there is nothing in revealed truth opposed to these sciences by way
of either negation or affirmation, and nothing in these sciences opposed to the
truths of religion. Muhammad, peace be upon him said, `The sun and the moon
are two of the signs of Allah; they are not eclipsed for anyone‟s death nor for his
life; if you see such an event, take refuge in thikr Allah (most high) and in prayer‟.
There is nothing here obliging us to deny the science of arithmetic which informs
us specifically of the orbits of sun and moon, and their conjunction and opposition.
(The further saying of Muhammad, peace be upon him, `When Allah manifests
Himself to a thing, it submits to Him‟, is an addition which does not occur at all in
moon, considering that what they say is contrary to revelation. When that view is
thus attacked, someone hears who has knowledge of such matters by
demonstration. He does not doubt his demonstration, but, believing that Islam is
based on ignorance and the denial of apodictic proof, grows in love for
philosophy and hatred for Islam.
A grievous crime indeed against religion has been committed by the man who
imagines that Islam is defended by the denial of the mathematical sciences,
seeing that there is nothing in revealed truth opposed to these sciences by way
of either negation or affirmation, and nothing in these sciences opposed to the
truths of religion. Muhammad, peace be upon him said, `The sun and the moon
are two of the signs of Allah; they are not eclipsed for anyone‟s death nor for his
life; if you see such an event, take refuge in thikr Allah (most high) and in prayer‟.
There is nothing here obliging us to deny the science of arithmetic which informs
us specifically of the orbits of sun and moon, and their conjunction and opposition.
(The further saying of Muhammad, peace be upon him, `When Allah manifests
Himself to a thing, it submits to Him‟, is an addition which does not occur at all in