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necessary to abstain from using them. If we adopt the attitude of abstaining
from every truth that the mind of a heretic has come to before us, then we
would abstain from much that is true.
If so, then we should ignore a great number of Koranic verses, Prophetic
Sayings, accounts of early Muslims, as well as all sayings of philosophers
and mystics. The reason for that is that the author of the book of the
`Brethren of Purity‟ cited them in his work. He argues from them and
gradually enticed men of weak understanding to accept his falsehoods; he
goes on making claims until heretics remove truth from our hands by
depositing it in their writings.
The lowest degree of education is to distinguish oneself from the ignorant
ordinary man. The educated man does not loathe honey even if he finds it
in a surgeon‟s cupping-glass; he realizes that the cupping-glass does not
alter the honey. The natural aversion rests on popular ignorance, arising
from the fact that the cupping-glass is made for impure blood. Men imagine
from every truth that the mind of a heretic has come to before us, then we
would abstain from much that is true.
If so, then we should ignore a great number of Koranic verses, Prophetic
Sayings, accounts of early Muslims, as well as all sayings of philosophers
and mystics. The reason for that is that the author of the book of the
`Brethren of Purity‟ cited them in his work. He argues from them and
gradually enticed men of weak understanding to accept his falsehoods; he
goes on making claims until heretics remove truth from our hands by
depositing it in their writings.
The lowest degree of education is to distinguish oneself from the ignorant
ordinary man. The educated man does not loathe honey even if he finds it
in a surgeon‟s cupping-glass; he realizes that the cupping-glass does not
alter the honey. The natural aversion rests on popular ignorance, arising
from the fact that the cupping-glass is made for impure blood. Men imagine