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I. The Science of Theology: its Aims and Achievements.
I started then, with the science of Theology (`ilm al-kalam), and obtained
a thorough grasp of it. I read the books sound theologians and I myself
wrote some books on the subject. But I found it was a science which,
though achieving its own aim, did not achieve mine. Its aim was merely to
preserve the traditions and defend them against the deviations of heretics.
Allah sent to His servants, by the mouth of His messenger, in the Koran
and Prophetic Sayings, a religion which is the truth and whose contents are
the basis of man‟s welfare in both religious and secular affairs. But satan
too sent, in the suggestions of heretics, things contrary to traditions; men
tended to accept his suggestions and almost corrupted the true religion for
its adherents. So Allah brought into being the class of theologians, and
moved them to support traditional traditions with the weapon of systematic
proofs, laying bare the confused doctrines invented by the heretics
deviating from traditions. This is the origin of theology and theologians.
I started then, with the science of Theology (`ilm al-kalam), and obtained
a thorough grasp of it. I read the books sound theologians and I myself
wrote some books on the subject. But I found it was a science which,
though achieving its own aim, did not achieve mine. Its aim was merely to
preserve the traditions and defend them against the deviations of heretics.
Allah sent to His servants, by the mouth of His messenger, in the Koran
and Prophetic Sayings, a religion which is the truth and whose contents are
the basis of man‟s welfare in both religious and secular affairs. But satan
too sent, in the suggestions of heretics, things contrary to traditions; men
tended to accept his suggestions and almost corrupted the true religion for
its adherents. So Allah brought into being the class of theologians, and
moved them to support traditional traditions with the weapon of systematic
proofs, laying bare the confused doctrines invented by the heretics
deviating from traditions. This is the origin of theology and theologians.