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the heavens together with the heavenly bodies, and of what is beneath the
heavens, both simple bodies like water, air, earth, fire, and composite bodies like
animals, plants and minerals, and also of the causes of their changes,
transformations and combinations. This is similar to the investigation by medicine
of the human body with its principal and subordinate organs, and of the causes of
the changes of temperament. Just as it is not a condition of religion to reject
medical science, so likewise the rejection of natural science is not one of its
conditions, except with regard to particular points which I enumerate in my book,
The Incoherence of the Philosophers. Any other points on which a different view
has to be taken from the philosophers are shown by reflection to be implied in
those mentioned. The basis of all these objections is the recognition that nature
is in subjection to Allah most high, not acting of itself but serving as an instrument
in the hands of its Creator. Sun and moon, stars and elements, are in subjection
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to His command. There is none of them whose activity is produced by or
proceeds from its own essence.
heavens, both simple bodies like water, air, earth, fire, and composite bodies like
animals, plants and minerals, and also of the causes of their changes,
transformations and combinations. This is similar to the investigation by medicine
of the human body with its principal and subordinate organs, and of the causes of
the changes of temperament. Just as it is not a condition of religion to reject
medical science, so likewise the rejection of natural science is not one of its
conditions, except with regard to particular points which I enumerate in my book,
The Incoherence of the Philosophers. Any other points on which a different view
has to be taken from the philosophers are shown by reflection to be implied in
those mentioned. The basis of all these objections is the recognition that nature
is in subjection to Allah most high, not acting of itself but serving as an instrument
in the hands of its Creator. Sun and moon, stars and elements, are in subjection
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to His command. There is none of them whose activity is produced by or
proceeds from its own essence.