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among those Allah extracts for Himself in order that they do not worship but
Allah. Indeed, Allah has venerated our master Muhammad, his family and
companions, and given him peace.
You must know -and may Allah Most High refine your righteousness and
soften your guidance to the truth- that the different religious observances
and religious communities of the human race and likewise the different
theological systems of
You have asked me, my brother in religion, to show you the aims and inmost
nature of the sciences [materialistic, spiritual and cultural, philosophical and
Judeo-Christo-Muslim religion] and their secrets and the perplexing depths of
religious systems. I relate to you the difficulties I encountered in my attempt to
extricate the truth from the confusion of contending sects, between the wide
difference in ways and methods, and how I braved climbing above the plain of
naive emulation and second-hand belief (taqlid) to the peak of direct vision. What I
have benefited firstly from the science of theology [with its logic and debate]
Allah. Indeed, Allah has venerated our master Muhammad, his family and
companions, and given him peace.
You must know -and may Allah Most High refine your righteousness and
soften your guidance to the truth- that the different religious observances
and religious communities of the human race and likewise the different
theological systems of
You have asked me, my brother in religion, to show you the aims and inmost
nature of the sciences [materialistic, spiritual and cultural, philosophical and
Judeo-Christo-Muslim religion] and their secrets and the perplexing depths of
religious systems. I relate to you the difficulties I encountered in my attempt to
extricate the truth from the confusion of contending sects, between the wide
difference in ways and methods, and how I braved climbing above the plain of
naive emulation and second-hand belief (taqlid) to the peak of direct vision. What I
have benefited firstly from the science of theology [with its logic and debate]