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(3) what is not to be denied at all. Let us proceed to the details:
B. The Various Philosophical Sciences. For our present purpose the
philosophical sciences are six in number: mathematics, logic, natural
science, theology, politics, and ethics.
1. MATHEMATICS. This embraces arithmetic, plane geometry and solid
geometry. None of its results are connected with religious matters, either to
deny or to affirm them. They are matters of demonstration which it is
impossible to deny once they have been understood and comprehended.
Nevertheless, there are two drawbacks which arise from mathematics.
(a) The first is that every student of mathematics admires its precision
and the clarity of its demonstrations. This leads him to believe in the
philosophers and to think that all their sciences resemble this one in clarity
and demonstrative cogency. Further, he has already heard the accounts on
everyone‟s lips of their unbelief, their denial of Allah‟s attributes, and their
contempt for revealed truth; he becomes an unbeliever merely by accepting
them as authorities (bi’l-taqlid al-mahd), and says to himself, `If religion
B. The Various Philosophical Sciences. For our present purpose the
philosophical sciences are six in number: mathematics, logic, natural
science, theology, politics, and ethics.
1. MATHEMATICS. This embraces arithmetic, plane geometry and solid
geometry. None of its results are connected with religious matters, either to
deny or to affirm them. They are matters of demonstration which it is
impossible to deny once they have been understood and comprehended.
Nevertheless, there are two drawbacks which arise from mathematics.
(a) The first is that every student of mathematics admires its precision
and the clarity of its demonstrations. This leads him to believe in the
philosophers and to think that all their sciences resemble this one in clarity
and demonstrative cogency. Further, he has already heard the accounts on
everyone‟s lips of their unbelief, their denial of Allah‟s attributes, and their
contempt for revealed truth; he becomes an unbeliever merely by accepting
them as authorities (bi’l-taqlid al-mahd), and says to himself, `If religion