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and accomplishments, especially the perfection of their intellects in
distinguishing true from false and guidance from misguidance. It is
therefore necessary to shut the gate to keep the general public from
reading books of the misguided as far as possible. The public is not free
from the second bad tendency we are about to discuss, even if they are
uninfected by the one just mentioned.

Some of the statements made in our published works on the principles
of religious sciences have been objected to by a group of men whose
understanding does not grasp the sciences and whose insight does not
penetrate the fundamentals of the systems. They think that these
statements are taken from ancient philosophers, but the fact is that some
of them are the product of reflections I had independently (it is not
improbable that one‟s foot might fall in another‟s footprint) while others
come from the revealed Scriptures, and in the case of the majority, the
essence though not the actual words are found in the works of the mystics.
Suppose that the statements are found only in the philosophers‟ books. If
they are reasonable in themselves and supported by proof, and if they do
not contradict the Book and the Prophetic practice (Sunna), then it is not